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Noun destruction has 3 senses
- destruction, devastation - termination by an act of destruction
--1 is a kind of termination, ending, conclusion
--1 has particulars: | | disaster; kill; laying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination, wrecking; razing, leveling, tearing down, demolishing; annihilation, obliteration; decimation; self-destruction; neutralization, neutralisation; sabotage; extermination, liquidation; holocaust; demolition; spoliation; vandalism, hooliganism, malicious mischief |
- destruction, demolition, wipeout - an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something
--2 is a kind of ending, conclusion, finish
--2 has particulars:
- end, destruction, death - a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"
--3 is a kind of state
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