destruction

English

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French destrucion, from Latin dēstructio.

Pronunciation

Audio (US) (file)
IPA^(key): /ˌdɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/
Rhymes: -ʌkʃən

Noun

destruction (countable and uncountable, plural destructions)

The act of destroying.
The destruction of the condemned building will take place at noon.
The results of a destructive event.
Amid the seemingly endless destruction, a single flower bloomed.

Antonyms

construction

Related terms

destroy
destructionless
destructive

Translations

act of destroying

Arabic: تَدْمِير‎‎ m (tadmīr), هَدْم‎‎ (ar) m (hadm)
Catalan: destrucció f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 毀滅 (zh), 毁灭 (zh) (huǐmiè), 破壞 (zh), 破坏 (zh) (pòhuài)
Czech: destrukce, zničení
Danish: ødelæggelse
Dutch: vernietiging (nl) f
Finnish: tuhoaminen (fi)
French: destruction (fr) f
Galician: destrución (gl) f
Georgian: განადგურება (ganadgureba)
German: Zerstörung (de) f, Vernichtung (de) f
Greek: καταστροφή (el) f (katastrofí), συντριβή (el) f (syntriví)
Ancient Greek: ἀπώλεια f (apṓleia)
Hausa: ɓarna (ha)
Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} הריסה‎‎ f (harisa) (1), ^{(please verify)} הרס‎‎ m (heres) (2)
Hindi: नाश (hi) (nāś), विनाश (hi) (vināś)
Icelandic: eyðilegging (is) f
Irish: loitiméireacht f, líomhadh m, eirleach m, urbhaidh f (literary), argain f
Italian: distruzione (it) f

Japanese: 破壊 (ja) (hakai), 破棄 (ja) (haki), 湮滅 (ja) (inmetsu)
Korean: 파괴 (ko) (pagoe), 멸망 (ko) (myeolmang)
Kurdish:
Sorani: ناهێشتن‎‎ (nAhaeshtin), وێرانی‎‎ (ku) (waerAni)
Latin: exitium n, clādes f
Maori: whakangaromanga, whakamōtītanga
Polish: niszczenie (pl) n
Portuguese: destruição (pt) f
Romanian: distrugere (ro) f
Russian: разруше́ние (ru) n (razrušénije), уничтоже́ние (ru) n (uničtožénije)
Scottish Gaelic: milleadh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: униште́ње n, про̏па̄ст f, катастро́фа f

Roman: uništénje (sh) f, prȍpāst (sh) f, katastrófa (sh) f, razrušenje f, uništavanje (sh) n, sravnjenje sa zemljom n
Spanish: destrucción (es)
Swahili: uharibifu
Swedish: förstörelse (sv) c, ödeläggelse (sv) c
Turkish: tahribat (tr), yıkma (tr), yok etme, izmihlal (tr) (archaic), harap etme
Welsh: aball m

results of a destructive event

Catalan: destrucció f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 毀滅 (zh), 毁灭 (zh) (huǐmiè), 破壞 (zh), 破坏 (zh) (pòhuài)
Czech: zkáza (cs) f
Esperanto: detruado, detruo
Finnish: tuho (fi)
Galician: destrución (gl) f
German: Zerstörung (de) f
Greek: καταστροφή (el) f (katastrofí)
Icelandic: eyðilegging (is) f

Italian: distruzione (it) f
Japanese: 潰滅 (ja) (kaimetsu), 滅亡 (ja) (metsubō), 倒壊 (ja) (tōkai)
Polish: zniszczenie (pl) n
Portuguese: destruição (pt) f
Romanian: distrugere (ro) f
Scottish Gaelic: creach f, milleadh m
Spanish: destrucción (es) f
Swedish: förstörelse (sv) c, ödeläggelse (sv) c
Turkish: yıkım (tr), harabiyet

See also

devastation

Anagrams

introducest

French

Etymology

Old French destrucion, from Latin destructio.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɛs.tʁyk.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)

Noun

destruction f (plural destructions)

destruction

Related terms

détruire

Further reading

“destruction” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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