destruction : Idioms & Phrases

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destruction fire

  • noun fire delivered for the sole purpose of destroying material objects
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self-destruction

  • noun the act of killing yourself
    self-annihilation; suicide.
    • it is a crime to commit suicide
  • noun the act of destroying yourself
    • his insistence was pure self-destruction
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Self`-de*struc"tion noun
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  1. The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide. Milton.
Webster 1913

weapon of mass destruction

  • noun a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons)
    W.M.D.; WMD.
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