destruction

Plural

destructions

1. 1.The act of destroying.

   • The destruction of the condemned building will take place at noon.
   • About 1500 B.C., however, a powerful earthquake caused widespread destruction, and thereafter there were major changes. An earlier script, undeciphered, but known as Linear A, was replaced by the Greek Linear B.

2. 2.The results of a destructive event.

   • Amid the seemingly endless destruction, a single flower bloomed.
   • If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.

3. 3.A group of feral cats.

   • A group of wild cats is called a destruction.

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