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n. 1 (&lit mass destruction English) 2 (context uncountable idiomatic English) Killing of large numbers of people.
Wikipedia
Mass destruction may refer to:
- Weapon of mass destruction, a munition with the capacity to indiscriminately kill large numbers of living beings
- Weapons of Mass Destruction (album), a 2004 album by rapper Xzibit
- "Mass Destruction" (song), a 2004 single by Faithless
- Mass Destruction (video game), a 1997 mission-based tank shooting video game for the Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn and MS-DOS
- Mass Destruction, a German ( neo-Nazi) metal band
"Mass Destruction" is the name of the first single from the fourth album by Faithless, No Roots. It was released on 31 May 2004 and reached #7 in the UK Singles Chart.
In Australia, the song was ranked #41 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004.
Mass Destruction is a 1997 third-person action game developed by NMS Software Ltd. and published by ASC Games and BMG Interactive Entertainment. Released for MS-DOS, the Sega Saturn, and the PlayStation, the game puts players in control of a tank, and tasks them with destroying enemy forces. While some reviewers described the game as "simplistic" and "mindless", others found its stripped-down action enjoyable.
Usage examples of "mass destruction".
Unfortunately, the only prudent and realistic course of action left to the United States is to mount a full-scale invasion of Iraq to smash the Iraqi armed forces, depose Saddam's regime, and rid the country of weapons of mass destruction.
Amazing, he reflected, how recently he'd thought of Parsifal as an appalling exercise in mass destruction.
By the same token, we need the tech base and medical facilities that are also aboard those transports, so mass destruction weapons are out of the question.
We're going against Iraq because it has weapons of mass destruction, and we don't accept the idea that rogue states like Iraq can have nuclear weapons.
The Air Force spokesperson promptly held a press conference to defuse Saddam's natural reaction that America had initiated first use of weapons of mass destruction.
Not many high-tech races we could observe and steal from produced mass destruction energy weapons, or, for that matter, much in the way of any weapons at all.
In the age of weapons of mass destruction, there can be no second place.
The results to Brazil are as if a weapon of mass destruction had been unleashed upon us.
Makers could burrow deep into a moon or planetary surface and create weapons of mass destruction out of the raw materials available.
When they are satisfied that Earth is livable again, they'll come ashore and establish a new order, the Fourth Empire, on the bodies of seven billion people, along with the mass destruction of animal and sea life.