Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Destruction (Nonproduction)

Nouns
  • destruction
  • waste, dissolution, breaking up
  • diruption, disruption
  • consumption
  • disorganization. fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash
  • smash, havoc, debacle
  • break down, break up, fall apart
  • prostration
  • desolation, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm
  • washout. extinction, annihilation
  • destruction of life etc. [Destruction of life; violent death.] Killing
  • knock-down blow
  • doom, crack of doom. destroying etc. v.
  • demolition, demolishment
  • overthrow, subversion, suppression
  • abolition etc. (abrogation) Abrogation
  • biblioclasm
  • sacrifice
  • ravage, razzia
  • inactivation
  • incendiarism
  • revolution etc. [Sudden or violent change.] Revolution
  • extirpation etc. (extraction) [Forcible egress.] Extraction
  • beginning of the end, road to ruin
  • dilapidation etc. (deterioration) Deterioration
  • sabotage.
Verbs
  • be destroyed etc.
  • perish
  • fall to the ground
  • tumble, topple
  • go to pieces, fall to pieces
  • break up
  • crumble to dust
  • go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin
  • go by the board, go all to smash
  • be all over, be all up, be all with
  • totter to its fall. destroy
  • do away with, make away with
  • nullify
  • annual etc. Abrogation
  • sacrifice, demolish
  • tear up
  • overturn, overthrow, overwhelm
  • upset, subvert, put an end to
  • seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish [Slang], undo
  • break up, cut up
  • break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down
  • suppress, quash, put down, do a job on
  • cut short, take off, blot out
  • dispel, dissipate, dissolve
  • consume. smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver
  • batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces
  • laniate
  • nip
  • tear to rags, tear to tatters
  • crush to atoms, knock to atoms
  • ruin
  • strike out
  • throw over, knock down over
  • fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge
  • lay in ashes, lay in ruins
  • sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze
  • level with the dust, level with the ground
  • waste
  • atomize, vaporize. deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut
  • disorganize
  • dismantle etc. (render useless) Inutility
  • devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound
  • exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate
  • snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out
  • lay in the dust, trample in the dust
  • prostrate
  • tread under foot
  • crush under foot, trample under foot
  • lay the ax to the root of
  • make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of
  • cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons
  • fling to the winds, scatter to the winds
  • throw overboard
  • strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword
  • cast to the dogs
  • eradicate etc. [Forcible egress.] Extraction.
Adjectives
  • destroyed etc. v.
  • perishing etc. v.
  • trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall
  • in course of destruction etc. n.
  • extinct. all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing. destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating
  • incendiary, deletory
  • destroying etc. n.. suicidal
  • deadly etc. (killing) [Destruction of life; violent death.] Killing.
Adverbs
  • with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer.
Phrases
  • ecrasez l'infame [Voltaire].