Antonym: construction, establishment. Similar words: instruction, construction, instructional, constructing, restriction, instruct, structure, construct. Meaning: [-kʃn] n. 1. the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists 2. an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something 3. a final state.
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181. The conference also agreed on a Statement of Forest Principles, aimed particularly at limiting the destruction of tropical forests.
182. The brutal destruction of an entire village was one of the worst atrocities of the Vietnam war.
183. Unfortunately, the snail spread across the island and caused widespread destruction to crops.
184. The fire was brought under control, preventing further destruction in a neighbouring classroom.
185. However, the view is widespread that the destruction of food is politically unacceptable.
186. Yet in the age of unprecedented environmental destruction an awkward question nags at us.
187. When those techniques have been mastered, the student is ready to make his first serious destruction attempt. Sentencedict.com
188. Perhaps the order of the destruction of Ixora's men was random; logic was not the doctor's strong suit.
189. As winds sweep these chemical pockets into middle latitudes they encounter sunlight and trigger rapid ozone destruction.
190. Marx believed that the basic contradictions contained in a capitalist economic system would lead to its eventual destruction.
191. Time allowed 06:25 Trail of destruction ... police pursue teenage joyrider across three counties.
192. There is no doubt that part of the Catholic community in Britain reacted strongly to the destruction and damage of Catholic churches.
193. Humane destruction is not easy to face, but fear of the unknown is often far worse than facing the truth.
194. It is caused by excessive destruction of erythrocytes at a rate that exceeds the conjugating ability of the liver.
195. Many are working to save species from extinction, animals from cruelty, natural environment from destruction.
196. Its destruction marred the prince's reputation, and it marked the end of his military career.
197. I draw no distinction between those who wield the weapons of destruction and those who do red-cross work.
198. There is certainly very little archaeological evidence of any serious destruction of property in the countryside at this time.
199. The trebuchet; a twelfth-century example of this deadly weapon, capable of enormous destruction as a siege engine.
200. Fortunately, the tide of destruction is ebbing and the tide of conservation is coming in....
201. The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George Orwell
202. But the miners' sense of anger at the prolonged destruction of their industry is also worthy of note.
203. She is the embodiment of the divine cosmic power of destruction.
204. Dam promoters, guilty of 40 years of ecological and social destruction, were to be held accountable.
205. This immune response leads to the destruction of the beta cells that make insulin.
206. The situation is exacerbated by unusually low levels of nitrogen oxides, which inhibit ozone destruction.
207. But in the early 1970s it was in danger of total destruction.
208. Wisdom consists in putting some distance between the soul and such destruction.
209. The destruction of forests for timber, fuel, and charcoal increased during the 18th century.
210. The consequence is an apparently endless flow of death, injury and destruction of property.
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