destruction

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  1. noun The act of destroying.
  2. noun The condition of having been destroyed.
  3. noun The cause or means of destroying: weapons that could prove to be the destruction of humankind.

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  • He didn't recognize the house or the neighborhood, but the destruction was all too familiar. —  AnalogSFF,Jan/Feb2004
  • Yes, malicious data destruction was and remains a felony. —  AnalogSFF,May2008
  • A student named Brigid walks by the BMW and notices the Lebanese leaning over the passenger seat and she even registers the panic on his face as he lifts something up in the seconds before the car explodes A simple flash of light, a loud sound, the BMW bursts apart The extent of the destruction is a blur and its aftermath somehow feels beside the point. —  Glamorama
  • The reason for the destruction was the failure or refusal of the companies to pay the —  Gates of Vienna
  • "Our digital data destruction is a trade-secret process developed in-house that exceeds government standards for destruction and quality control," explains Angie Singer Keating, vice president of compliance and security at Reclamere.
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dēstrūctiō, dēstrūctiōn-, from dēstrūctus, past participle of dēstruere, to destroy; see destroy.

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  1. from Middle English destruction, destruccion, destruccioun, from Old French destruction, also destruison, French destruction = Spanish destruccion = Portuguese destruição = Italian distruzione, from Latin destructio(n-), a pulling down, destroying, from destruere, past participle destructus, pull down, destroy: see destroy.
 

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