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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
destruction
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the destruction of a habitat
▪ It is in south Texas that the destruction of the bird’s habitat has been most alarming.
the destruction of the environment
▪ Logging has led to the destruction of the natural environment.
weapons of mass destruction
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complete
▪ Electric installations were smashed with sledgehammers and then switched on melting connexions in complete destruction.
▪ This had the effect of breaking down the structure of the pellets, and repetition caused the complete destruction of the pellet.
environmental
▪ The killing, which occurred in 1988, was met with worldwide outrage and focused attention on environmental destruction of the Amazon.
▪ Yet in the age of unprecedented environmental destruction an awkward question nags at us.
▪ They are already threatened with environmental destruction, since 88 % of their original vegetation has been destroyed.
▪ The downside was inefficiency, corruption and environmental destruction.
final
▪ The final destruction of the road's equilibrium took place when it was given over to high speed travel by car.
▪ They are all watching the final destruction of his cronies-the crooked Clintons.
great
▪ Instead, they issued the Potsdam Declaration, calling again for unconditional surrender on pain of great destruction.
▪ In Shakespearian tragedy, hypocrisy is not only a poison in itself but the cause of ever greater destruction.
mass
▪ Has there been an improvement in stopping smuggling and building weapons of mass destruction?
▪ In July 1834, rioting against abolitionists in New York City resulted in mass destruction of the black section.
▪ Inevitably, worldwide control over the use of weapons of mass destruction will create new political and military dangers.
total
▪ The Second Period established that right, it is the Third Period which has provided the near total destruction of it.
▪ The world came close to total destruction over a matter of prestige.
▪ These all suffered damage, in the Second World War, varying from partial to almost total destruction.
▪ In any populated area, such a wave would cause total destruction.
▪ What was it that had been condemned to this total destruction?
▪ The factory rapidly expanded and this led to the almost total destruction of the remaining parts of the Bishop's Palace.
▪ Only its solidity and quality of construction saved it from total destruction.
▪ But in the early 1970s it was in danger of total destruction.
wanton
▪ The Home Secretary, David Blunkett, took a tough line, saying that he would not tolerate wanton destruction and violence.
▪ As stated in the supplement, the heritage erosion is due to ignorance, and not wanton destruction.
wholesale
▪ While the threat of wholesale destruction failed to materialize, the cathedrals were turned over to a variety of secular uses.
▪ Single-handed he did his best to prevent the wholesale destruction of the big houses in Spital Square.
▪ For the scenes of wholesale death and destruction were staged during filming of the big new film about the Guildford Four.
widespread
▪ Unfortunately, the snail spread across the island and caused widespread destruction to crops.
▪ This reaction was based on the understanding that atomic bombs cause widespread death and destruction and extreme human suffering.
▪ They believe this action must be taken to prevent widespread destruction of wildlife habitats.
▪ The widespread destruction and looting carried out by the soldiers further damaged the image of the new government.
▪ However, the view is widespread that the destruction of food is politically unacceptable.
■ NOUN
forest
▪ We can make some progress, but all we can do is hold back the forest destruction.
▪ Entire tribes have disappeared as a result of forest destruction.
▪ Similar estimates derive from observed forest destruction, scaled from the uprooting of trees in nuclear weapons tests.
ozone
▪ The situation is exacerbated by unusually low levels of nitrogen oxides, which inhibit ozone destruction.
▪ A worldwide agreement reached more than 10 years ago banned the long-lived chemicals responsible for ozone destruction.
▪ As winds sweep these chemical pockets into middle latitudes they encounter sunlight and trigger rapid ozone destruction.
■ VERB
bring
▪ The rush to a market economy is not enough: all that will bring is the destruction of the old system.
▪ However, this revelation did not bring about the destruction of Euclidean geometry, it simply added to it.
▪ But she can also bring about his destruction.
cause
▪ Unfortunately, the snail spread across the island and caused widespread destruction to crops.
▪ It is caused by excessive destruction of erythrocytes at a rate that exceeds the conjugating ability of the liver.
▪ Mercifully, it did not cause the death and destruction intended.
▪ In any populated area, such a wave would cause total destruction.
▪ The investigators found no evidence of a defect or malfunction that could have caused the destruction of the aircraft.
▪ If the disorder is allowed to progress, the continued backflow of bile will cause parenchymal cell destruction.
▪ Lava has been erupting from Unzen since mid-1991, causing much death and destruction in the process.
▪ This reaction was based on the understanding that atomic bombs cause widespread death and destruction and extreme human suffering.
involve
▪ Since excavation involves destruction of much of the evidence, it is an unrepeatable exercise.
▪ It can also involve destruction of furniture, hitting people, hurting themselves, and screaming for half an hour or more.
▪ Did the table and chair in your home involve rainforest destruction?
lead
▪ Yet this love, so compelling, so fascinating as it grew despite everything, had been leading to destruction.
▪ He had imagined that their weakness and fearfulness had led them to destruction.
▪ Marx believed that the basic contradictions contained in a capitalist economic system would lead to its eventual destruction.
▪ This immune response leads to the destruction of the beta cells that make insulin.
▪ Former Attorney General Lord Rawlinson said the reforms would lead to the destruction of the independent bar.
prevent
▪ The fire was brought under control, preventing further destruction in a neighbouring classroom.
▪ Seismologists said the quake appeared to have been rooted about 30 miles underground, deep enough to prevent catastrophic destruction.
▪ It would prevent the destruction of rain forests and save our climate.
▪ In other words, they can not prevent the destruction of Trantor no matter what they do.
▪ Single-handed he did his best to prevent the wholesale destruction of the big houses in Spital Square.
▪ What do you believe governments, given the resources, should be doing to prevent this destruction and sale of looted antiquities?
▪ It was not until 1913 that powers were provided to compulsorily prevent the damage or destruction of monuments.
▪ They believe this action must be taken to prevent widespread destruction of wildlife habitats.
result
▪ It will result in the destruction of Camley street natural park, which is used by thousands of local school children.
▪ In July 1834, rioting against abolitionists in New York City resulted in mass destruction of the black section.
save
▪ She soon became very drunk and forgot about mankind, so they were saved from destruction.
▪ One, indeed, after men had been created, saved them from destruction.
▪ For all that it remains an object which can not move itself or save itself from destruction.
▪ In the first instance, he was saved by the fortuitous destruction of his papers in an Allied bombing raid.
▪ The Mir space station has failed to attract enough would-be visitors to save itself from destruction.
test
▪ Eden was tested to destruction by the Suez crisis.
▪ It makes no sense to test it to destruction.
▪ Although deliberately designed to test the market to destruction, the results shocked the participants and the Department of Health.
▪ Better that its belief should not, come next month, be tested to destruction.
▪ It boils down to seven assertions, all of which must be tested to destruction.
▪ With the re-emergence of such Malthusian conflicts, international cooperation may be tested to destruction.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wreak havoc/mayhem/destruction (on sth)
▪ And they wreak havoc with the goal of raising revenue efficiently.
▪ But we all know that a moment's overload, may wreak havoc.
▪ Did they hire a private eye to wreak havoc on the life of the harasser?
▪ Since elk can also wreak havoc in cropland and forestry plantations, a record 70,000 animals are being culled this hunting season.
▪ The goat, being a goat, wreaks havoc, and the tenant grows desperate.
▪ The storm wreaked havoc on trains and highways, making it unlikely thousands of investors and traders will arrive at work.
▪ This is a critical feature on such an instrument, as a badly cut nut here would wreak havoc on playability.
▪ Unassimilated, they might one day wreak havoc in her life.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The destruction of forests for timber, fuel, and charcoal increased during the 18th century.
▪ The president flew in to look at the destruction caused by the earthquake.
▪ The war caused widespread death and destruction.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Every April, hordes of noisy invaders descend upon this otherwise peaceful town of 60, 000 and proceed to spread destruction.
▪ In this sense such systems contain the seeds of their own destruction.
▪ Indirect evidence of mounting demographic pressure is also provided by the steady destruction of the forests.
▪ Perhaps the order of the destruction of Ixora's men was random; logic was not the doctor's strong suit.
▪ The death and destruction had torn apart families whose political loyalties had also been divided in what was essentially a civil war.
▪ These are the colour changes in Tamburlaine's army on the three days before the destruction of Damascus.
▪ What came instead were world wars, a Great Depression, a Holocaust, and threats of nuclear destruction.
▪ Whether versions of destruction are to take place within or without the industrial enterprise, the political implications are obvious.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Destruction

Destruction \De*struc"tion\, n. [L. destructio: cf. F. destruction. See Destroy.]

  1. The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.

    The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction.
    --Esth. ix. 5.

    'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
    --Shak.

    Destruction of venerable establishment.
    --Hallam.

  2. The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated.

    This town came to destruction.
    --Chaucer.

    Thou castedst them down into destruction.
    --Ps. lxxiii. 18.

    2. A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer.

    The destruction that wasteth at noonday.
    --Ps. xci. 6.

    Syn: Demolition; subversion; overthrow; desolation; extirpation; extinction; devastation; downfall; extermination; havoc; ruin.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
destruction

early 14c., from Old French destruction (12c.) and directly from Latin destructionem (nominative destructio) "a pulling down, destruction," from past participle stem of destruere "tear down" (see destroy).

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Wiktionary
destruction

n. 1 The act of destroying. 2 The results of a destructive event.

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WordNet
destruction

  1. n. termination by an act of destruction [syn: devastation]

  2. an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something [syn: demolition, wipeout]

  3. a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" [syn: end, death]

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Wikipedia
Destruction (DC Comics)

Destruction is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman.

Destruction (band)

Destruction is a German thrash metal band. They are considered one of the "Big 4" of the German thrash metal scene, the others being Kreator, Sodom and Tankard. Three of those four bands (Tankard being the exception) are often credited with helping pioneer black metal, by containing several elements of what was to become the genre. Destruction was originally named Knight of Demon, but changed their name in 1984. For most of the 1990s, Destruction was not signed to a record label and was forced to self-produce their albums until they signed a contract with Nuclear Blast in the early 2000s.

Destruction

Destruction may refer to:

  • The concept of damage to an object, system, being or idea, as in legal damages and physical vandalism
  • Destruction Bay, Yukon, Canada
  • Destruction (DC Comics), one of the Endless in Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman
  • Destruction (band), a German thrash metal band
  • Destruction (film), a 1915 film starring Theda Bara
  • "The Destruction", a song from the musical Carrie
  • Appetite for Destruction the debut album of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses
  • Symphony of Destruction a single by Megadeth from the album Countdown to Extinction
  • Destructoid a video-game blog
  • Destruction (EP), a 1994 EP by the German thrash metal group Destruction
  • NJPW Destruction, professional wrestling event
Destruction (EP)

Destruction is an EP by German thrash metal band Destruction. It was the first release self-financed by Mike Sifringer on the Brain Butcher label after Schmier's departure. The period of Brain Butcher releases is often called "Neo-Destruction." This album is the first of the three "Neo-Destruction" albums.

Destruction (film)

Destruction is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Will S. Davis and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost. Destruction is based on the 1901 Émile Zola novel Travail ("Labor").

Destruction (2012)

Destruction (2012) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on September 23, 2012, in Kobe, Hyōgo, at the Kobe World Memorial Hall. The event featured nine matches, two of which were contested for championships. It was the sixth event under the Destruction name.

Destruction (2013)

Destruction (2013) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on September 29, 2013, in Kobe, Hyōgo, at the Kobe World Memorial Hall. The event featured ten matches (including one dark match), four of which were contested for championships. It was the seventh event under the Destruction name.

Destruction (song)

"Destruction" is a song by American indie rock band Joywave. It was released as a single from their debut studio album, How Do You Feel Now?, on March 30, 2015. A music video for the song was released on January 13, 2016 through YouTube. "Destruction" peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart and was featured on the soundtrack for the video game Madden NFL 16.

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Usage examples of "destruction".

And then the issue would be joined indeed, and in a way that only the destruction of Lantlu or Adana herself could end.

Proud of his victory and his royal prize, the Bulgarian advanced to relieve Adrianople and achieve the destruction of the Latins.

The Aedile had been exiled to this tiny backwater city after the triumph of the Committee for Public Safety because he had spoken against the destruction of the records of past ages.

Shadow is clearly at work in the midst of the horrors of war, racism, sexism, agism, and the technological destruction of the biosphere.

Under the specious pretext of abolishing human sacrifices, the emperors Tiberius and Claudius suppressed the dangerous power of the Druids: but the priests themselves, their gods and their altars, subsisted in peaceful obscurity till the final destruction of Paganism.

However unappealing or pathetically ridiculous Dostoevsky makes them out to be, the members of the quintet do not believe in systematic amorality and universal destruction as panaceas for the ills of the social order.

Reflectively she threw away the energy, deflecting it out across the amphitheater in gigantic dragon tongues of destruction.

She thought of Amri, dying in a burning house, of Jo Leiakanawa, of the wanton destruction of the Net.

With equal haste and violence, the Oriental synod of fifty bishops degraded Cyril and Memnon from their episcopal honors, condemned, in the twelve anathemas, the purest venom of the Apollinarian heresy, and described the Alexandrian primate as a monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.

After his death and the destruction of both great armies, the Archai swept over the Isles.

Following the destruction of Vo Astur, the Mimbrate Duke had proclaimed himself king of all Arendia, but proclamations have very little to do with reality.

His squadrons of warhead-delivery ships scattered from the launching bays, swooped beneath the rings, and dropped airburst bombs into the atmosphere, hitting strategic substations first and then deploying secondary atomics to spread the destruction across the landscape below.

Wyndham remarked that the Jews have a tradition which in itself is very probable, that the venerable man pointed out to Cyrus, after his conquest of Babylon, the verses in Isaiah, wherein he is spoken of by name, as conquering by the power of the Lord, and giving orders to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple: and also that other passage, in which the destruction of the Babylonish empire by the Medes is foretold, both prophecies being recorded more than a hundred years before the birth of the mighty king by whom they were accomplished.

It will be remembered that women took a prominent part in the destruction of the Bastile, helping, indeed, to tear down that odious structure with their own hands, the fall of which, it is well known, brought in the classic Greek and republican simplicity, the subtle meaning of the change being expressed in French gowns.

Paris after the destruction of the Bastile, a step which she had always regarded as the forerunner and cause of some of the most irremediable encroachments of the Revolutionists.