destruction
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- n the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
- n an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something
- n a final state
- The destruction was too widespread to be happenstance.
- Now he says the dictator doesn't seem to have weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and that trying to oust Saddam is "extremely dangerous.
- But there, too, the destruction may have made matters worse.