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{
"term": "destruction",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "the act of destroying something; the process of being destroyed",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the destruction of the rainforests"
},
{
"text": "a tidal wave bringing **death and destruction** in its wake"
},
{
"text": "The central argument is that capitalism **sows the seeds of its own destruction** *(= creates the forces that destroy it)*."
},
{
"text": "By doubling its prices, the industry sowed the seeds of its own destruction."
},
{
"text": "Children will quickly test their toys to destruction."
},
{
"text": "He gasped as he saw how much destruction she had wrought with the hammer."
},
{
"text": "They had miraculously survived the destruction of the spacecraft."
},
{
"text": "She witnessed the destruction of most of her work in a studio fire."
},
{
"text": "Some shopkeepers closed early to prevent the wholesale destruction of their property by the hooligans."
},
{
"text": "The earthquake caused loss of life and property destruction."
},
{
"text": "The tornado left a trail of destruction behind it."
},
{
"text": "Three of the paintings escaped destruction."
},
{
"text": "a war of mutual destruction"
},
{
"text": "the destruction brought about by war"
},
{
"text": "the environmental destruction caused by road building"
},
{
"text": "the threat of nuclear destruction which haunts the post-war world"
},
{
"text": "the wanton destruction of public property"
},
{
"text": "those who seek the destruction of our way of life"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["complete", "total", "utter"],
"verb + destruction": ["bring (about)", "cause", "lead to"],
"phrases": [
"leave a trail of destruction",
"the seeds of destruction",
"test something to destruction"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrʌkʃn/",
"audio": "de/destruction/destruction__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrʌkʃn/",
"audio": "de/destruction/destruction__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Latin destructio(n-), from the verb destruere, from de- (expressing reversal) + struere ‘build’."
}