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The destruction of the rain forests is an ecological disaster.雨林遭破坏是一种生态灾难。
The police arrived to find a scene of horrifying destruction.警察赶到时看到那个地方已经毁坏得不成样子了。
30 years after the fire he is still haunted by images of death and destruction.那场火灾过去30年之后，死亡和毁灭的场景仍在他脑海中挥之不去。
The army left a trail of destruction behind them.
This century has witnessed environmental destruction on an unprecedented scale.环境在本世纪遭到了空前的破坏。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Destroying and demolishing
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annihilation
apocalypse
bash
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erosion
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destruction | American Dictionary

destruction
noun[ U ]
us/dɪˈstrʌk·ʃən/
the action of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed:
Unusually high winds left widespread destruction over the area.

destructive

adjectiveus/dɪˈstrʌk·tɪv/
The child needs help to control his destructive behavior.

Examples of destruction

destruction
At the outer edges of the plume, however, the production and destruction terms rapidly approach zero and advection and transport balance each other.
The specific power deposition must be reduced to avoid destruction of the target.
If the hammer were still threatening it into destruction, it would bounce back on this plastic and resilient network.
However, the mechanism underlying the selective destruction of paternally derived mitochondria is unclear.
The wettest waste was placed directly in front of the flame to ensure the best possibility of destruction, which was also normal practice.
The test to be applied is whether such destruction of value promotes the public health, safety, morals or general welfare.
For the efficacy of the method, the authors stress the importance of strict adherence to the dosing schedule and destruction of non-dosed stray dogs.
Theorems have four modes: they can be introduction rules (as in figure 3), elimination rules, destruction rules and equations (which are not shown).
Thus, we can think of the destruction of the city by the enemy as the name of the event the enemy destroyed the city.
Generally, the protests are characterised by non-violence and little destruction.
The massive destruction of old sacred monuments can be better conceived as a ritual purification of the inner circle of unchristian, pagan elements.
They are abstraction's guardians, ideology's policemen, the horsemen of conservatism, and their deadly work leads to the destruction of vital, burgeoning life.
Theft of factory property or the destruction of tools or machines led to fifty blows and a fine equal to the value of the property.
Problems associated with the destruction of cultivated crops by herdsmen accessing grazing fields are bound to intensity.
Moreover, not only the death of two persons was dealt with, but also the destruction and transformation of an entire village.
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Collocations withdestruction

destruction

These are words often used in combination with destruction.

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assured destruction
They claimed that their military-political balance of mutually assureddestruction constituted 'shared' interests and served the specific interests of the alliances, too.
brink of destruction
The cold war led to a nuclear arms race that brought the world to the brink of destruction.
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