destruction
/dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/ noun B1- The act of destroying. · The destruction of the condemned building will take place at noon.
- The results of a destructive event. · Amid the seemingly endless destruction, a single flower bloomed.
- A group of feral cats.
Plural destructions
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Pride goes before destruction.
why should you thus, of your own accord, incur destruction and trust yourself in the house of your enemy?” The Stag replied: “Only allow me, friend, to stay where I am, and I will undertake to find some favourable opportunity of effecting my escape.” At the approach of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see the Stag; and even the farm-bailiff with several laborers passed through the shed and failed to notice him.
On his departure the Farmer grievously lamented the destruction of his sheep and oxen, but his wife, who had been a spectator to all that took place, said, “On my word, you are rightly served, for how could you for a moment think of shutting up a Lion along with you in your farmyard when you know that you shake in your shoes if you only hear his roar at a distance?”
An old oak, lamenting when too late the destruction of his companions, said to a neighboring cedar, “The first step has lost us all.
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