DESTRUCTION

n. 1 demolition, razing, wrecking, ruin, ruining, ruination, breaking up or down, mayhem, havoc, annihilation, devastation, tearing or knocking down, laying waste, ravagement; rack and ruin, Colloq wiping out The destruction of the city took place in 1942 2 slaughter, annihilation, killing, eradication, murder, extermination, holocaust, liquidation, massacre, extinction, genocide, assassination, slaying, putting to death, putting an end to, making an end of, doing away with, putting away, Colloq doing in, wiping out; Slang US rubbing out, rub-out They were bent on the destruction of an entire people 3 undoing, end, ruin, ruination, downfall, termination, breakup, breakdown, collapse The imprisonment of the bosses spelt the destruction of the entire crime network