Meaning & use

destruction

noun·Academic

The act of destroying something, or the state of having been badly damaged or ruined.

See it in a sentence

The hurricane left a trail of destruction along the entire coastline.

Years of neglect led to the slow destruction of the once-beautiful garden.

A note on using this word

Destruction usually implies severe, often irreversible damage, while damage can describe harm of any degree, including minor and repairable.

Words with a similar meaning

devastationruin

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Words with an opposite meaning

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