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destruction

noun
/dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English destruccioun, from Old French destrucion, from Latin dēstructiō, dēstructiōnem.

  1. derived from destructio
  2. derived from destrucion
  3. inherited from destruccioun

Definitions

  1. The act of destroying.

    • The destruction of the condemned building will take place at noon.
    • About 1500 B.C., however, a powerful earthquake caused widespread destruction, and thereafter there were major changes. An earlier script, undeciphered, but known as Linear A, was replaced by the Greek Linear B.

  2. The results of a destructive event.

    • Amid the seemingly endless destruction, a single flower bloomed.
    • If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.

  3. A group of feral cats.

    • A group of wild cats is called a destruction.

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Derived

angiodestruction, autodestruction, creative destruction, cyclodestruction, cytodestruction, demand destruction, destructional, destructionism, destructionist, destruction permit, macrodestruction, mass destruction, megadestruction, mutual assured destruction, mutually assured destruction, neurodestruction, nondestruction, phosphodestruction, photodestruction, thermodestruction, weapon of mass destruction

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at destruction. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01destruction02destructive03lossy04power05influence06change07replace08restore09ruin

A definitional loop anchored at destruction. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at destruction

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA