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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | destruction |
| Synonyms: | confusion, defoliation, demolition, depredation, desolation, havoc, loss, pillage, plunder, ravages, ruin, ruination, spoliation, waste |
| Antonyms: | building, construction, creation |
| Main Entry: | catastrophe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calamity; unhappy conclusion |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, alluvion, bad luck, bad news, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, contretemps, crash, culmination, curtains, debacle, denouement, desolation, devastation, disaster, emergency, end, failure, fatality, fiasco, finale, grief, hardship, havoc, ill, infliction, meltdown, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, scourge, stroke, termination, the worst, tragedy, trial, trouble, upshot, waterloo, wreck |
| Antonyms: | benefit, blessing, favor, good fortune, good luck, happiness, miracle, success, wonder |
| Main Entry: | consumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devouring; use |
| Synonyms: | burning, consuming, damage, decay, decrease, depletion, desolation, destruction, devastation, diminution, dispersion, dissipation, drinking, eating, exhaustion, expenditure, loss, misuse, ruin, swallowing, using up, utilization, waste, wear and tear |
| Antonyms: | fasting, starvation |
| Main Entry: | damage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury, loss |
| Synonyms: | accident, adulteration, adversity, affliction, bane, blemish, blow, breakage, bruise, casualty, catastrophe, cave-in, contamination, corruption, debasement, depreciation, deprivation, destruction, deterioration, detriment, devastation, disservice, disturbance, evil, hardship, harm, hurt, illness, impairment, infliction, knockout, marring, mischief, mishap, mutilation, outrage, pollution, ravage, reverse, ruin, ruining, spoilage, stroke, suffering, waste, wound, wreckage, wrecking, wrong |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, favor, improvement, profit |
| Main Entry: | debacle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | catastrophe |
| Synonyms: | beating, blue ruin, breakdown, collapse, crack-up, crash, defeasance, defeat, devastation, disaster, dissolution, downfall, drubbing, failure, fiasco, havoc, licking, overthrow, reversal, rout, ruin, ruination, shellacking, smash, smashup, trouncing, vanquishment, washout, wreck |
| Antonyms: | boon, miracle, wonder |
| Main Entry: | desolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uninhabitated area; barrenness |
| Synonyms: | bareness, bleakness, desert, devastation, dissolution, extinction, forlornness, isolation, loneliness, ruin, solitariness, solitude, waste, wildness, wreck |
| Antonyms: | civilization |
| Main Entry: | havoc |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chaotic situation |
| Synonyms: | calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, chaos, confusion, damage, desolation, despoiling, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, disorder, disruption, loss, mayhem, plunder, rack and ruin, ravages, ruination, shambles, vandalism, waste, wreck, wreckage |
| Antonyms: | peace |
| Main Entry: | holocaust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | widespread destruction |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, carnage, catastrophe, devastation, extermination, extinction, genocide, immolation, inferno, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| Main Entry: | violation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rape, defilement |
| Synonyms: | assault, blasphemy, debasement, defacement, defacing, degradation, desecration, destruction, devastation, dishonor, invasion, mistreatment, outrage, pollution, profanation, rapine, ravishment, ruin, sacrilege, spoliation |
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