Associations to the word «Destruction»

Wiktionary

DESTRUCTION, noun. The act of destroying.
DESTRUCTION, noun. The results of a destructive event.
DESTRUCTION PERMIT, noun. (Australia) A government license to kill or remove fauna that would otherwise be protected.

Dictionary definition

DESTRUCTION, noun. The termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists.
DESTRUCTION, noun. An event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something.
DESTRUCTION, noun. A final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats