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Destruction
DESTRUCTION, n.
1. The act of destroying; demolition; a pulling down; subversion; ruin, by whatever means; as the destruction of buildings, or of towns. Destruction consists in the annihilation of the form of any theing; that form of parts which constitues it what it is; as the destruction of grass or herbage by eating; of a forest, by cutting down the trees; or it denotes a total annihilation; as the destruction of a particular government; the destruction of happiness.
2. Death; murder; slaughter; massacre.
There was a deadly destruction throughout all the city. 1 Sam 5.
3. Ruin.
Destruction and misery are in their ways. Rom 3.
4. Eternal death.
Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction. Mat 7.
5. Cause of destruction; a consuming plague; a destroyer.
The destruction that wasteth at noon-day. Psa 91.
destruction appears in definitions for these words:
Abolishment Abolition Accurse Accursed Average Bane Besom Bird-catching Blasting Bombastry Carnage Clay Conservant Constitute Consumption Corruptible Corruption Covering Cursed Damage Deathless Decay Defeat Deletion Demolition Demoralization Departure Deperdition Depopulation Desolation Destroying Destructibility Destructible Destruction Destructive Destructively Devastation Devote Dilapidation Dispensing Dissolution Doom Doomful Downfall Embalmed Embalming End Eradication Erasement Eschew Eversion Excision Execution Extermination Extinction Extinguishment Extirpation Fall Fallowing Fatal Fate Havock Hokeday Hunting Hurtful Hurtfulness Impend Incompossibility Inconsistent Incursion Indestructibility Infatuate Insecurity Instrument Internecion Lethiferous Loss Manslaughter Massacer Melancholy Mortality Mortification Mow Near Nip Obstinately Overthrow Perdition Peril Perishable Perishableness Perpetual Policy Predict Preservation Preservative Preserve Preserved Preserver Preserving Pride Privation Promotion Proscribe Proscribed Proscriber Proscribing Ravage Re-edify Remaining Remnant Renovate Renovation Repair Reprobate Reprobated Reprobating Reprobation Reprobationer Rescue Ruin Sacrifice Salvation Save Saved Saver Saving Sea-risk Self-destruction Self-destructive Self-preservation Shipwreck Significant Sink Slaughter Smite Startle Strip Sudden Sweep Swift Sword Sythe Tend Test Thereat Undo Undoer Undoing Unsafe Unsafely Vandalism Voluntarily War Waste Wasting Without Wreck Wrest Zealot
Abolishment Abolition Accurse Accursed Average Bane Besom Bird-catching Blasting Bombastry Carnage Clay Conservant Constitute Consumption Corruptible Corruption Covering Cursed Damage Deathless Decay Defeat Deletion Demolition Demoralization Departure Deperdition Depopulation Desolation Destroying Destructibility Destructible Destruction Destructive Destructively Devastation Devote Dilapidation Dispensing Dissolution Doom Doomful Downfall Embalmed Embalming End Eradication Erasement Eschew Eversion Excision Execution Extermination Extinction Extinguishment Extirpation Fall Fallowing Fatal Fate Havock Hokeday Hunting Hurtful Hurtfulness Impend Incompossibility Inconsistent Incursion Indestructibility Infatuate Insecurity Instrument Internecion Lethiferous Loss Manslaughter Massacer Melancholy Mortality Mortification Mow Near Nip Obstinately Overthrow Perdition Peril Perishable Perishableness Perpetual Policy Predict Preservation Preservative Preserve Preserved Preserver Preserving Pride Privation Promotion Proscribe Proscribed Proscriber Proscribing Ravage Re-edify Remaining Remnant Renovate Renovation Repair Reprobate Reprobated Reprobating Reprobation Reprobationer Rescue Ruin Sacrifice Salvation Save Saved Saver Saving Sea-risk Self-destruction Self-destructive Self-preservation Shipwreck Significant Sink Slaughter Smite Startle Strip Sudden Sweep Swift Sword Sythe Tend Test Thereat Undo Undoer Undoing Unsafe Unsafely Vandalism Voluntarily War Waste Wasting Without Wreck Wrest Zealot
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