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UK
/dɪstɹˈʌkʃən/
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[ US /dɪˈstɹəkʃən/ ]
[ US /dɪˈstɹəkʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
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a final state
the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end
he came to a bad end - an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something
How To Use destruction In A Sentence
- She is also part of a large group of oceanographers and taphonomists of the SSETI project (Shelf / Slope Taphonomic Initiative) examining carbonate preservation and destruction across the shelf and slope regions in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas using submersibles.
- It seemed impossible that anyone could come alive through that cyclone of destruction. The Sun
- It seemed impossible that anyone could come alive through that cyclone of destruction. The Sun
- He wanted to scream and shout, beat the wall and call down the forces of destruction.
- Together, they were able to mollify workers and quietly implement the destruction of thousands of jobs.
- Yet the Browns harbour no bitterness towards Waugh over the destruction of their business.
- Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars
- Its total destruction is not a moral imperative for the human race. Times, Sunday Times
- Henry, ever the pragmatist, considered the farrago of his brother's recent attempted coup, which had ended in the destruction of the Jacobite clans, to have been the Stuarts' last chance.
- What are the possibilities and risks of according spirituality some therapeutic value for those on the edge of the abyss of self-destruction?