destruction (n.)
- abomination
- abscission
- amputation
- annihilation
- assassination
- atrocity
- bad
- bane
- bankruptcy
- beating
- befoulment
- bereavement
- blight
- blood
- bloodletting
- bloodshed
- breakage
- breakdown
- breakup
- collapse
- confusion
- conquering
- conquest
- corruption
- cost
- crack-up
- crash
- damage
- deathblow
- debacle
- debit
- defeat
- defilement
- demolition
- denial
- denudation
- deprivation
- despoilment
- despoliation
- destroyer
- detriment
- devastation
- dilapidation
- disablement
- dispatch
- dispossession
- disrepair
- downfall
- drubbing
- elimination
- encroachment
- end
- eradication
- euthanasia
- evil
- excision
- exclusion
- execution
- expense
- extermination
- extinction
- extirpation
- failure
- fall
- forfeit
- forfeiture
- genocide
- gore
- grievance
- harm
- havoc
- hiding
- holocaust
- hurt
- hurting
- ill
- immolation
- impairment
- infection
- infringement
- injury
- inroad
- kill
- killing
- lapidation
- licking
- liquidation
- loser
- losing
- loss
- martyrdom
- massacre
- mastery
- mayhem
- mischief
- murder
- mutilation
- outrage
- overthrow
- overturn
- perdition
- poison
- poisoning
- pollution
- privation
- quietus
- razing
- rescission
- robbery
- ruin
- ruination
- ruining
- sabotage
- sacrifice
- scathe
- shooting
- slaughter
- slaying
- smash
- spoiling
- spoliation
- stoning
- stripping
- subjugation
- termination
- thrashing
- toxin
- trimming
- trouncing
- undoing
- venom
- vexation
- weakening
- whipping
- woe
- wrecking
- wrong
The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
It must be so,—Plato, thou reasonest well!
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?
Or whence this secret dread and inward horror
Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
'T is the divinity that stirs within us;
'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for . . . the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
