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Kafkaesque, baneful, deadly, deletory, destroyed, destroying, destructive, detrimental, disintegrous, dislimning, exitious, extinct, fatiferous, fricative, incendiary, internecine, irrefragable, lethiferous, marcescent, marcid, mundicidious, nocuous, nodding to its fall, perishing, phthartic, poisonous, putrescent, ruinous, saprogenic, slighted, subversive, suicidal, symphoric, tottering to its fall, trembling to its fall, venene, veneniferous, virose, vorpal, wasted
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| Concept: | [Nonproduction] Destruction. |
| Category: | 3. POWER IN OPERATION |
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-nouns
destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption; disorganization., fall, downfall, ruin, peridition, crash, eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout., extinction, annihilation; destruction of life; knock-down blow; doom, crack of doom., destroying; demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition (abrogation); biblioclasm; sacrifice; ravage, devastation, razzia; incendiarism; revolution; extirpation (extraction); commencement de la fin, road to ruin; dilapidation (deterioration); sabotage.
-verbs
be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall., destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annul; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume., smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground., deal destruction, lay waste, ravage, gut; disorganize; dismantle (render useless); devour, swallow up, desolate, devastate, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincement of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.
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destroyed; perishing; trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall; in course of destruction; extinct; all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing., destructive, subversive, ruinous, incendiary, deletory; destroying n. suicidal; deadly (killing).
-adverbs
with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer.
-phrases
delenda est Carthago [Cato. "Carthage must be destroyed" (Latin)]; dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit ["While Rome deliberates Saguntum perishes" (Latin)]; ecrasez
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| Antonyms: | production |
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| Concept: | [Instrument of punishment.] Scourge. |
| Category: | 5. Institutions |
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scourge, rod, cane, stick; ratan, rattan; birch, birch rod; azote, blacksnake, bullwhack [U.S.], chicote, kurbash, quirt, rawhide, sjambok; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon., whip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout; cat, cat o'nine tails; rope's end., pillory, stocks, whipping post; cucking stool, ducking stool; brank; trebuchet, trebuket., triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel., treadmill, crank, galleys., scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; mecate., house of correction (prison)., goaler, jailer; executioner; electrocutioner; lyncher; hangman; headsman; Jack Ketch.
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| Concept: | [Suppression of sign] Obliteration. |
| Category: | 1. Natural Means |
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obliteration; erasure, rasure; cancel, cancellation; circumduction; deletion, blot; tabula rasa; effacement, extinction.
-verbs
efface, obliterate, erase, rase, expunge, cancel; blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, apply the sponge., be effaced; leave no trace; "leave not a rack behind."
-adjectives
obliterated; out of print; printless; leaving no trace; intestate; unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten.
-phrases
delenda est Carthago [Cato].
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| Antonyms: | record |
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