the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
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disaster
kill
laying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination, wrecking
razing, leveling, tearing down, demolishing
annihilation, obliteration
decimation
self-destruction
neutralization, neutralisation
sabotage
liquidation, extermination
holocaust
demolition
spoliation
vandalism, hooliganism, malicious mischief