Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: vernietiging
- Amharic: ጥፋት
- Arabic: تدمير
- Azerbaijani: məhv
- Bashkir: емерелеп
- Belarusian: разбурэнне
- Bulgarian: разрушаването на
- Bengali: ধ্বংস
- Bosnian: uništenje
- Catalan: destrucció
- Cebuano: kalaglagan
- Czech: zničení
- Welsh: dinistrio
- Danish: ødelæggelse
- German: Zerstörung
- Greek: καταστροφή
- Esperanto: detruo
- Spanish: la destrucción
- Estonian: hävitamine
- Basque: suntsipen
- Persian: تخریب
- Finnish: tuhoa
- French: la destruction
- Irish: scrios
- Scottish Gaelic: sgrios
- Galician: destrución
- Gujarati: વિનાશ
- Hebrew: הרס
- Hindi: विनाश
- Croatian: uništenje
- Haitian: destriksyon
- Hungarian: pusztítás
- Armenian: ոչնչացման
- Indonesian: kehancuran
- Icelandic: eyðileggingu
- Italian: distruzione
- Japanese: 破壊
- Javanese: karusakan
- Georgian: განადგურება
- Kazakh: бұзылуы
- Khmer: ការបំផ្លាញ
- Kannada: ನಾಶ
- Korean: 파괴
- Kyrgyz: бузулушу
- Latin: interitum
- Luxembourgish: Zerstéierung
- Lao: ການທໍາລາຍ
- Lithuanian: naikinimas
- Latvian: iznīcināšana
- Malagasy: fandravana
- Mari: сӱмырлен
- Maori: whakangaromanga
- Macedonian: уништување
- Malayalam: നാശം
- Mongolian: устгал
- Marathi: नाश
- Hill Mari: сӹмӹрлӹш
- Malay: kemusnahan
- Maltese: l-qerda
- Burmese: ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်း
- Nepali: विनाश
- Dutch: vernietiging
- Norwegian: ødeleggelse
- Punjabi: ਤਬਾਹੀ
- Papiamento: e destrukshon
- Polish: zniszczenie
- Portuguese: destruição
- Romanian: distrugerea
- Russian: разрушение
- Sinhalese: විනාශ
- Slovak: zničenie
- Slovenian: uničenje
- Albanian: shkatërrimi
- Serbian: уништавање
- Sundanese: karuksakan
- Swedish: förstörelse
- Swahili: uharibifu
- Tamil: அழிவு
- Telugu: విధ్వంసం
- Tajik: шикастагии
- Thai: การทำลายล้าง
- Tagalog: pagkawasak
- Turkish: yıkım
- Tatar: разрушение
- Udmurt: куашкан
- Ukrainian: руйнування
- Urdu: تباہی
- Uzbek: yo'q
- Vietnamese: phá hủy
- Xhosa: intshabalalo
- Yiddish: צעשטערונג
- Chinese: 破坏
Synonyms, close and similar words for destruction
- extermination
- obliteration
- ruination
- erosion
- contrition
- annihilation
- deterioration
- doom
- degradation
- deconstruction
- extinction
- loss
- fatality
- erasure
- wipeout
- destroying
- undermining
- desolation
- demolition
- havoc
- decimation
- devastation
- demolishment
- collapsing
- disintegration
- collapse
- dissolution
- downfall
- decay
- dilapidation
- wreckage
- damage
- rupture
- defeat
- breakage
- breakdown
- failure
- disruption
- wrecking
- ruin
- demise
- death
- undoing
- perishing
- elimination
- abolition
- extirpation
- eradication
- killing
- crumbling
- kill
- smashing