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