Search for crossword answers and clues
Place of destruction
Answer for the clue "Place of destruction ", 7 letters:
abaddon
Alternative clues for the word abaddon
Word definitions for abaddon in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., used in Rev. ix:11 of "the angel of the bottomless pit," and by Milton of the pit itself, from Hebrew Abhaddon "destruction," from abhadh "he perished." The Greek form was Apollyon .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Abaddon is a Biblical Hebrew word meaning "a place of destruction". Abaddon or Abadon may also refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abaddon \A*bad"don\ ([.a]*b[a^]d"d[u^]n), n. [Heb. [=a]badd[=o]n destruction, abyss, fr. [=a]bad to be lost, to perish.] The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus. Hell; the bottomless pit. [Poetic] In all her gates, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; Apollyon; Asmodeus. (First attested from 1350 to 1470) (R:SOED5: page=2) 2 (context poetic English) Hell; the bottomless pit; a place of destruction. (Late 17 th century.)
Usage examples of abaddon.
Believing that Adam was alive on Abaddon was better than believing that her own death was near.
If I have put you on the course to Abaddon by carelessly speaking, I am sorry.
Under telescopics, the image of Abaddon was even stranger, like a tear in the vacuum.
Yet she found herself being drawn to Abaddon, the most forbidden sphere.
Hirsch was alive, or so he thought, but there were many on Abaddon who had died, but who were not at rest, who believed they were still alive.
To those who lived on Abaddon, nothing was more important than those towers.
Adam first arrived on Abaddon, he found small mitzvahs he could perform.
While exploring the plains of Abaddon for his masters, he rehearsed reunions with Magen he never expected would come to pass.
On Abaddon, they needed someone who understood physics to make reports.
And here, on Abaddon, where God was most hidden, Adam found God most revealed.
He was supposed to be alive, too, if you consider being on Abaddon life.
At least half of them were mush-skinned Abaddon corpses, walking dead.
He knew that if he crossed the Parliament, there would be nowhere in this world that would be safe for him, and he might end up down in Abaddon himself.
Verlis from Abaddon and let me go with him to Draconae to help his clan.
It was not quite the same as being held captive in Abaddon, but it was not very different, either.