Destruction synonyms

59 synonyms for destruction such as butchery, blasting, annihilation, and butchering. Destruction is a noun, and its antonyms are creation and construction.

Another word for destruction

1. demolition

Blasting, blighting, blowing up, bombing, breaking up, carpet bombing, defacing, demolition, desolation, devastation, disfigurement, dismantling, dynamiting, felling, harm, impairment, injury, knocking down, laying waste, levelling, marring, pulling down, ravaging, razing (to the ground), ruination, scarring, shattering, smashing, spoiling, spoliation, tearing down, torpedoing, wasting, and wrecking.

2. annihilation

Annihilation, butchering, butchery, decimation, elimination, eradication, extermination, extinction, extirpation, finishing off, killing, liquidation, massacre, massacring, obliteration, rooting out, rubbing out, slaughter, slaughtering, snuffing out, taking out, wasting, wiping out, and zapping.

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