[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

destruction \destruc"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
see also:
destroy 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

destruction
     n 1: 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
see also:
devastation demolition wipeout end death 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

[4] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

destruction
   in job 26:6, 28:22 heb. abaddon is sheol, the realm of the
   dead.
   

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