ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

161} destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption † , disruption; consumption;
disorganization.
fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash; eboulement [Fr.], smash, havoc,
delabrement [Fr.], debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation,
bouleversement [Fr.], wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout.
extinction, annihilation; destruction of life &c 361; knock-down blow; doom, crack of
doom.
destroying &c v.; demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression;
abolition &c (abrogation) 756; biblioclasm † ; sacrifice; ravage, razzia † ; inactivation;
incendiarism; revolution &c 146; extirpation &c (extraction) 301; beginning of the end,
commencement de la fin [Fr.], road to ruin; dilapidation &c (deterioration) 659;
sabotage.
V. be destroyed &c; 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; annual &c 756; sacrifice, demolish;
tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of,
do in, do for, dish [Slang], 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, engulf,
ingulf † , submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze;
level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.
deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle &c
(render useless) 645; devour, swallow up, 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 mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut
into ribbons; 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 &c 301.
Adj. destroyed &c v.; perishing &c v.; trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to
its fall; in course of destruction &c n.; extinct.
all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing.
destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating; incendiary, deletory † ; destroying &c n..
suicidal; deadly &c (killing) 361.
Adv. with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer.
Phr. delenda est Carthago [Lat.]; dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit [Lat.]; ecrasez
l'infame [Voltaire].