Noun

• S: (n) destruction, devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)
• S: (n) destruction, demolition, wipeout (an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something)
• S: (n) end, destruction, death (a final state) "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• W: (v) end [Related to: end] (put an end to) "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"
• W: (v) end [Related to: end] (be the end of; be the last or concluding part of) "This sad scene ended the movie"
• W: (v) end [Related to: end] (bring to an end or halt) "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
• W: (v) end [Related to: end] (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical) "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
• W: (v) die [Related to: death] (disappear or come to an end) "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"