Meaning & use
destruction
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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