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destruction 音标拼音: [dɪstr'ʌkʃən] n. U破坏,毁坏;消灭 U破坏,毁坏;消灭 destruction破坏性 destruction破坏 destruction n 1: the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists [ synonym: { destruction}, { devastation}] 2: an event ( or the result of an event) that completely destroys something [ synonym: { destruction}, { demolition}, { wipeout}] 3: a final state; " he came to a bad end"; " the so- called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" [ synonym: { end}, { destruction}, { death}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction. -- Esth. ix. 5. [ 1913 Webster] ' Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Destruction of venerable establishment. -- Hallam. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated. [ 1913 Webster] This town came to destruction. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] Thou castedst them down into destruction. -- Ps. lxxiii. 18. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer. [ 1913 Webster] The destruction that wasteth at noonday. -- Ps. xci. 6. Syn: Demolition; subversion; overthrow; desolation; extirpation; extinction; devastation; downfall; extermination; havoc; ruin. [ 1913 Webster] 173 Moby Thesaurus words for " destruction": Waterloo, abomination, abscission, amputation, annihilation, assassination, atrocity, bad, bane, bankruptcy, beating, befoulment, bereavement, blight, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, breakage, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, collapse, confusion, conquering, conquest, corruption, cost, crack- up, crash, crippling, crying evil, damage, dead loss, dealing death, deathblow, debacle, debit, defeat, defilement, demolition, denial, denudation, deprivation, despoilment, despoliation, destroyer, destruction of life, detriment, devastation, dilapidation, disablement, dispatch, dispossession, disrepair, divestment, downfall, drubbing, elimination, encroachment, end, eradication, euthanasia, evil, excision, exclusion, execution, expense, extermination, extinction, extirpation, failure, fall, flow of blood, forfeit, forfeiture, genocide, gore, grievance, harm, havoc, hiding, hobbling, holocaust, hurt, hurting, ill, immolation, impairment, incapacitation, infection, infringement, injury, inroad, kill, killing, lambasting, lapidation, lathering, laying waste, licking, liquidation, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, maiming, martyrdom, martyrization, massacre, mastery, mayhem, mercy killing, mischief, murder, mutilation, outrage, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, perdition, poison, poisoning, pollution, privation, putting away, quietus, ravagement, razing, rescission, ritual killing, ritual murder, robbery, ruin, ruination, ruining, ruinousness, sabotage, sacrifice, scathe, shooting, sickening, slaughter, slaying, smash, spoiling, spoliation, stoning, stripping, subdual, subduing, subjugation, taking away, taking of life, tearing down, termination, the worst, thrashing, total loss, toxin, trimming, trouncing, undoing, vanquishment, venom, vexation, weakening, whipping, wiping out, woe, wrecking, wrong |
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