Word Meanings - DESTRUCTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation. The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction. Esth. ix. 5. 'Tis safer to be that

Additional info about word: DESTRUCTION

1. The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation. The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction. Esth. ix. 5. 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. Shak. Destruction of venerable establishment. Hallam. 2. The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated. This town came to destruction. Chaucer. Thou castedst them down into destruction. Ps. lxxiii. 18. 2. A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer. The destruction that wasteth at noonday. Ps. xci. 6. Syn. -- Demolition; subversion; overthrow; desolation; extirpation; extinction; devastation; downfall; extermination; havoc; ruin.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESTRUCTION)

• Blast
• Breeze
• efflation
• explosion
• blight
• burst
• blaze
• frustration
• destruction
• squall
• gale
• tempest
• hurricane
• affiliation
• Difference
• Separation
• dissimilarity
• unlikeness
• disagreement
• dissonance
• discord
• contrariety
• dissent
• distinction
• dissimilitude
• estrangement
• variety
• Extermination
• Eradication
• extirpation
• abolition
• Extinction
• Destruction
• stifling
• suffocation
• death
• cessation
• annihilation
• obsolescence
• Havoc
• Desolation
• ruin
• waste
• wreck
• ravage
• demolition
• devastation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DESTRUCTION)

• Restore
• expand
• swell
• Cohere
• hold
• stand
• Spare
• conserve
• preserve
• indemnify

Related words: (words related to DESTRUCTION)

• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• BURST
  berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. bærst, imp. pl. burston, p.p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden
• WRECKING
  a. & n. from Wreck, v. Wrecking car , a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision. -- Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• DISCORDABLE
  That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell.
• CONTRARIETY
  1. The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism. There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses. South. 2. Something which is contrary to,
• ABOLITIONIST
  A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• TEMPESTIVE
  Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers. Heywood. -- Tem*pes"tive*ly, adv.
• DEMOLITIONIST
  A demolisher. Carlyle.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• ANNIHILATION
  1. The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation. 2. The state of being
• DISCORD
  Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• SPANKING BREEZE
  a strong breeze.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• SUNBURST
  A burst of sunlight.
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.