DESTRUCTION
[dɪs`trʌkʃ(ə)n]разрушение; уничтожениеистребление, умерщвление, лишение жизниразорение; крахпричина краха, разорения
destruction: translationnounADJECTIVE▪ complete, total, utter, wholesale▪ large-scale, mass, massive, widespread▪modern weapons of mass destruction
▪ rapid▪ imminent▪ final, ultimate▪ systematic▪ wanton▪the wanton destruction of public property
▪ ecological, environmental, forest, habitat, ozone▪the environmental destruction caused by road building
▪ property▪The earthquake caused loss of life and property destruction.
▪ nuclear▪the threat of nuclear destruction which haunts the post-war world
▪ physical▪ deliberate, intentional▪ mutual▪a war of mutual destruction
VERB + DESTRUCTION▪ bring (about), cause, lead to, result in, wreak (formal)▪the destruction brought about by war
▪He gasped as he saw how much destruction she had wrought with the hammer.
▪ avoid, prevent, stop▪Some shopkeepers closed early to prevent the wholesale destruction of their property by the hooligans.
▪ escape, survive▪Three of the paintings escaped destruction.
▪He had miraculously survived the destruction of the spacecraft.
▪ see, watch, witness▪He witnessed the destruction of most of his work in a studio fire.
▪ seek▪those who seek the destruction of our way of life
PHRASES▪ leave a trail of destruction▪The tornado left a trail of destruction behind it.
▪ the seeds of destruction▪By doubling its prices, the industry sowed the seeds of its own destruction.
▪ test sth to destruction (BrE)▪Children will quickly test their toys to destruction.
[dısʹtrʌkʃ(ə)n] n1. 1) разрушение, уничтожениеdestruction fire - воен. огонь на разрушение /уничтожение/
destruction by fire /caused by fire/ - разрушения, причинённые пожаром
war means death and destruction - война означает /несёт/ смерть и разрушение
2) умерщвлениеdestruction of beasts of prey - уничтожение хищников
child destruction - юр. умерщвление плода
3) гибель; крушение; разорениеdestruction of hopes - крушение надежд
to bring smb.to destruction - разрушить что-л., довести что-л. до краха
to bring smb. to destruction - погубить кого-л.
to lie on the path to destruction - находиться на пути к гибели, быть на краю пропасти
to rush to one's own destruction - стремительно идти навстречу собственной гибели
4) разложение, деструкция (материала и т. п.)2. причина гибели, краха или разоренияgambling [drinking] was his destruction - его погубили карты [вино]
destruction: translationSynonyms and related words:Waterloo, abomination, abscission, amputation, annihilation, assassination, atrocity, bad, bane, bankruptcy, beating, befoulment, bereavement, blight, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, breakage, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, collapse, confusion, conquering, conquest, corruption, cost, crack-up, crash, crippling, crying evil, damage, dead loss, dealing death, deathblow, debacle, debit, defeat, defilement, demolition, denial, denudation, deprivation, despoilment, despoliation, destroyer, destruction of life, detriment, devastation, dilapidation, disablement, dispatch, dispossession, disrepair, divestment, downfall, drubbing, elimination, encroachment, end, eradication, euthanasia, evil, excision, exclusion, execution, expense, extermination, extinction, extirpation, failure, fall, flow of blood, forfeit, forfeiture, genocide, gore, grievance, harm, havoc, hiding, hobbling, holocaust, hurt, hurting, ill, immolation, impairment, incapacitation, infection, infringement, injury, inroad, kill, killing, lambasting, lapidation, lathering, laying waste, licking, liquidation, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, maiming, martyrdom, martyrization, massacre, mastery, mayhem, mercy killing, mischief, murder, mutilation, outrage, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, perdition, poison, poisoning, pollution, privation, putting away, quietus, ravagement, razing, rescission, ritual killing, ritual murder, robbery, ruin, ruination, ruining, ruinousness, sabotage, sacrifice, scathe, shooting, sickening, slaughter, slaying, smash, spoiling, spoliation, stoning, stripping, subdual, subduing, subjugation, taking away, taking of life, tearing down, termination, the worst, thrashing, total loss, toxin, trimming, trouncing, undoing, vanquishment, venom, vexation, weakening, whipping, wiping out, woe, wrecking, wrong
{dısʹtrʌkʃ(ə)n} n1. 1) разрушение, уничтожение
~ fire - воен. огонь на разрушение /уничтожение/
~ by fire /caused by fire/ - разрушения, причинённые пожаром
war means death and ~ - война означает /несёт/ смерть и разрушение
2) умерщвление
~ of beasts of prey - уничтожение хищников
child ~ - юр. умерщвление плода
3) гибель; крушение; разорение
~ of hopes - крушение надежд
to bring smb. to ~ - разрушить что-л., довести что-л. до краха
to bring smb. to ~ - погубить кого-л.
to lie on the path to ~ - находиться на пути к гибели, быть на краю пропасти
to rush to one's own ~ - стремительно идти навстречу собственной гибели
4) разложение, деструкция (материала и т. п.)
2. причина гибели, краха или разорения
gambling {drinking} was his ~ - его погубили карты {вино}