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Vocabulary: destroy, destruction

Sometimes, things are destroyed "for the pleasure of destroying", without any other aim

than the desire to satisfy a pulsion of violence... At other times, things are destroyed in

order to rebuild something else, which will be different or better... There are necessary

destructions and others that could have been done without...

Anyway, it's better to know the vocabulary in order to express both cases...

Destroy Wipe out

To destroy/ destruction/ destructive

Demolition/ to demolish

To wipe out/ to annihilate

To dash/ to ruin

To wreck/ to ruin

To exterminate/ extermination

To eliminate/ elimination

A ruin

Knocked down

To demolish/ to pull down/ to knock down/ to tear down

To raze a building to the ground

smashed

To break, I broke, broken

To smash sth (up)

To smash stg to smithereens

To bash

To shatter

A fragment/ to fragment

Dismantling furniture

To dissolve/ dissolution

To dismantle/ to break up

dismantling

To take sth apart/ take to pieces

- To tear sth up/ to tear sth to pieces/ to rip sth up

- Jack the Ripper

- To pull sth apart/ to pull sth to pieces

- To disintegrate/ disintegration

Rubble a real cataclysm

To damage

extensive damage

rubble

a wreck

wreckage (sing)

To devastate sth/ to lay waste to sth

devastation/ havoc

To wreak havoc

Mass destruction

To sack

To ransack

a cataclysm

a holocaust

A lot of words and expressions, of course! But once again, make your choice, and pick what

interests or motivates you! ... and let's keep our fingers crossed for the test!

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1. After an earthquake, seriously damaged houses must be to prevent further accidents.

2. Everybody knows that the use of the nuclear weapon would every human and animal life from the surface of the Earth.

3. This filter will the limestone in the water and will make it pleasant to drink.

4. For the powder to , pour it into water and stir gently…

5. After the car crash, and debris were scattered on the road.

6. The heavy rain our plans to go on a picnic. We’ll have to find indoor occupations for the kids…

7. The burglars broke into the house and everything valuable.

8. A violent hailstorm caused to the regional vineyards.

9. In that small city, several houses were so that the new hospital could be built.

10. The terrible quarrel between Sandy and her husband any hope of a lasting life together.

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