4. erasure, erasion, effacement, eradication, expunging, obliteration, blotting out, sponging out, wiping out, rubbing out, cancellation, striking out; scratching out, deleting, crossing out, Print, dele, marking off.
5. undoing, unmaking, unbuilding, dismantling, disassembling, taking apart.
6. killing, killing off, slaying, slaughter, putting an end to, making an end of, bringing to an end; murder, sacrifice, immolation, disposing of, finishing off, Si. doing in, Si. zapping, assassination, getting rid of, mowing down, doing away with, putting out of the way, Inf. wiping out, removal; massacre, liquidation, butchery, carnage, decimation; extinguishing, extinction, quenching, snuffing out, putting out, stamping out, smothering, choking; devouring, swallowing up, consumingness, eating away; drowning, strangling, setting fire to, shipwreck, submerging, shooting, gar-roting, hanging, knifing, decapitation.
7. annulment, nullification, disannulment, voidance, avoidance; quashing, Law. defeasance, invalidation, vitiation, Law. vacatur, disenactment, disestablishment; cancellation, discharge, setting aside; repeal, revocation, rescission, rescinding, reversal, abrogation, abolition; suspension, Law. nolle prosequi, cessation, discontinuance, breaking off; countermand, counterorder, overruling, overriding; veto, negation.
8. disproof, refutation, confutation, rebuttal; disputation, denial, opposition, countering; contradiction, belying, negation; overturning, overthrowing, disparagement, demeaning, debasing.
9. weakening, undermining, enfeeblement, debilitation, enervation, exhaustion, sapping, devitalization; disablement, breakdown, paralyzation. 10. neutralization, frustration; counterpoise, counterbalance, counteraction, contravention; overbalancing, outweighing. destructive, adj. 1. ruinous, disastrous, dire, dreadful, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic; devastating, wasting, ravaging; disruptive, troublesome, distracting, obstreperous, unruly, subversive; annihila-tive, eradicative, extirpative, incendiary, conflagrative.
2. pernicious, injurious, deleterious, baneful, mischievous; harmful, hurtful, noxious, noisome; malicious, vicious, wicked, evil, malevolent; detrimental, disadvantageous, damaging; baleful, menacing, malignant, bad; unwholesome, poisonous, toxic, pestilential, pestiferous, virulent.
3. deadly, fell, fatal, mortal, lethal, killing; murderous, suicidal.
4. adverse, negative, contrary, contradictory, opposed, opposing, opposite, antithetical, conflicting; disproving, refuting, confuting, discrediting, invalidating; derogatory, disparaging, disapproving; unfavorable, unpropitious, inauspicious; unfriendly, antagonistic, clashing, hostile. desultory, adj. inconsistent, inconstant, irregular, chaotic, haphazard; orderless, disorderly, unmethodical, unsystematic; changeable, capricious, shifting; unconnected, disconnected, random; unsteady, erratic, spasmodic, fitful; discursive, digressive, rambling, aimless, wandering, errant, roving. detach, v. 1. unfasten, uncouple, disengage, disconnect, unfix, unhitch, disjoin, disunite; disentangle, loosen, free; separate, dissociate, abstract, cut off, isolate, segregate.
2. Military, send on a special mission, detail.
