(n.) The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.
(n.) The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated.
(n.) A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer.
Example Sentences:
(1) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
(2) High mortality, severe destruction of pancreatic B-cells and presence of sporadic mononuclear infiltrations in islets and around excretory ducts were observed.
(3) Lung metastases leading to death were observed in one patient with small-cell osteosarcoma despite complete destruction of the primary tumor by preoperative chemotherapy.
(4) Since alkaline phosphatase, a glycoprotein, is not affected, the destruction is selective and presumably involves only the most exposed membrane components.
(5) Intravenous urography revealed destruction of the right kidney resembling Wilms tumor.
(6) Lawmakers across the globe are beginning to recognize the need to deter this destructive conduct.
(7) Finally, the uptake was completely abolished by prior mechanical or osmotic destruction of the intima.
(8) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
(9) While a clearcut relationship cannot be established between heavy metal music and destructive behavior, evidence shows that such music promotes and supports patterns of drug abuse, promiscuous sexual activity, and violence.
(10) Quite the contrary, in cases of higher nervous activity disturbances, destruction of the organelles and desintegration of spine apparatuses is clearly pronounced.
(11) Granule cell destruction began early, and was widespread by 2 days in vitro, when oligodendrocyte destruction also began in treated cultures.
(12) The ferrochelatase-inhibitory activity, porphyrin-inducing activity, and cytochrome P-450- and heme-destructive effects of a variety of analogues of 3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-1,4-dihydro-2,4,6-trimethylpyridine (DDC) were studied in chick embryo liver cells.
(13) A simple technique that consists of curetting the subcutaneous tissue in the necrotic area of the lesion, to prevent the local destructive actions of the toxin, is described.
(14) The high proteolytic activity of BCC demonstrated in this study may be an important factor in the proliferative, invasive and destructive behaviour of this tumour.
(15) North Korea has produced tons of propaganda films that portray America’s destruction.
(16) The object of these studies was to investigate whether destruction of the renal medulla in normal rats would alter vascular capacitance.
(17) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(18) The tissue destructive process is slower in older than in younger people, and the prognoses in correctly treated cases is good.
(19) Although these two destructive entities are completely different in many respects, they share a common denominator: the initial lesions are brought about by an aggregate of bacteria known as plaque.
(20) It is concluded that the massive destruction of the normal anatomy in the lateral semicircular canal may be the morphological basis of a functional endolymphatic fistula for drainage of the endolymphatic hydrops.
Doomsday
Definition:
(n.) A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.
(n.) The day of the final judgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the doomsday scenario, but according to a leaked report of the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation – a team of university professors, lawyers and journalists who spent six months investigating Japan's response to the triple meltdown at the plant – it could all too easily have happened.
(2) There are two tantalising psychological issues surrounding the predictions made by doomsday cults.
(3) The doomsday scenario privately discussed at both party conferences so far was the grudging election of a largest party of whichever flavour, but without the majority or mandate to fight its way out of a paper bag.
(4) There might be tales of divine intervention (Newton believed doomsday would be in the 21st century, calculated from clues in the Bible), or the idea that a bloody war would end up causing so many casualties that nations would suffer and wither away.
(5) Hillary’s health hoax Most of the recent flurry stems directly from InfoWars, a conspiracy-fueled political site run by shock jock Alex Jones that funds itself partly through the sale of supplies necessary for doomsday prepping such as bulk vitamins and a year’s worth of long-life food.
(6) Thus, unlike you, we are not inclined to take the doomsday scenarios you have painted too seriously.
(7) The doomsday sort of threats of Mr Robb don’t help anything.” He said critics of the agreement “have got a point” about maintaining and protecting labour standards.
(8) The battle for eastern Aleppo in maps: how rebel territory is shrinking Read more The bombardment of rebel areas of the city continued nonstop on Monday during the day in what residents called a “doomsday” scenario.
(9) Under the title "Scaring children" he writes: The group most vulnerable to doomsday claims is children.
(10) Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping looks likely to be less than rapturous after his prediction that the world would end on Saturday failed to materialise.
(11) • Alok Jha is a Guardian science correspondent and author of The Doomsday Handbook: 50 Ways to the End of the World (Quercus, £9.99) and How To Live Forever And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses for Science (Quercus, £9.99)
(12) Psychologist Leon Festinger coined the term in 1956, after studying how members of a doomsday cult dealt with the aftermath of an apocalypse that did not come.
(13) The risk is that satisfying the capricious whims of the financial markets leads to policy error and the doomsday scenario.
(14) AI doomsday scenarios belong more in the realm of science fiction than science fact.
(15) With almost half an hour played there was a reminder of the doomsday scenario for the home side of a Shakhter away goal when Aldin Dzidic headed over Forster's bar in a rare attack.
(16) For doomsday believers, the toughest of times is that moment of anticlimax, when the world keeps turning and the clock ticks on.
(17) The Doomsday Clock has not been dismantled after the cold war: but the advance towards catastrophe need not be inexorable.
(18) Ahead of Sunday's premiere of The Age of Stupid , an environmental doomsday docudrama, he compared those who do not accept that human-induced global warming is occurring with Holocaust deniers, and said the evidence for global change is now beyond doubt.
(19) Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) Remember, you have just a few hours left to get your recalcitrant doomsday friends to sign over all their assets to you.
(20) But in the daily Doomsday Clock countdown of Donald Trump’s presidency we at least see the foot-soldiers of the American government machine hurling themselves bodily into its gears, unconcerned for their own careers.