destroyingn.
/dɪˈstrɔɪɪŋ/ a. The action of destroy v.; destruction n.: now chiefly gerundial.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun]
end832
bale-sithea1000
wrakea1275
wonderc1275
destroyingc1300
destruction1340
contritionc1384
stroying1396
undoing1398
tininga1400
ruinc1425
fatec1430
fordoingc1450
perishing?1523
shipwreck1526
pernicion?1530
ruining1562
ruinating1587
defeasance1590
defeature1592
breakneck1598
ruination1599
defeat1600
doom1609
planet-striking1611
mismaking1615
rasurea1616
destructa1638
perition1640
interemption1656
smashing1821
degrowth1876
uncreation1884
creative destruction1927
the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun]
sleightc893
wal-slaught?a900
qualeeOE
deathOE
swordc1000
morthOE
slaughta1225
destroyingc1300
drepingc1300
martyrdomc1325
murderc1325
mortc1330
sleighterc1330
slaughter1338
iron and firea1387
murraina1387
manslaughtera1400
martyre?a1400
quella1425
occision?a1430
decease1513
destruction1526
slaughting1535
butchery?1536
butchering1572
massacrea1578
slaughterdom1592
slaughtering1597
carnage1600
massacring1600
slaughtery1604
internecion1610
decimationa1613
destroy1616
trucidation1623
stragea1632
sword-wrack1646
interemption1656
carnifice1657
panolethry1668
butcher work1808
bloodbath1814
populicide1824
man-slaughtering1851
battue1864
mass murder1917
genocide1944
overkill1957
c1300 K. Alis. 2888 Never siththe that destroying N'as in Thebes wonying.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 322 To telle hasty destriyng of hem.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 69 Forsoþ if he lay doun þe suerd..he opuniþ þe distroyingis.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. iv. xxiv. 144 They..consented to the destroying down of the faire Gardens about the Town, to begin the Fortifications.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 129 For onely in destroying I find ease To my relentless thoughts. View more context for this quotation
1805 Ld. Collingwood in A. Duncan Nelson (1806) 271 I determined no longer to delay the destroying them.
b. Nautical colloquial. The action of serving in a destroyer.
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1931 ‘Taffrail’ Endless Story i. 21 Most destroyer officers, their detractors averred, went in for ‘destroying’ because they..needed the extra pay.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
destroyingadj.
That destroys, destructive. destroying angel U.S. = Danite n. 2.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective]
fellc1330
undone1340
ruinous?a1439
violablea1470
perniciousc1475
destructive1490
confusible1502
destroying1535
exitiable1548
ruinate1562
peremptory1567
wrackful1578
slaughterous1582
ruinating1595
ruining1605
corrumpent1607
wracksome1608
in suds1611
destructory1614
poisonousa1616
wrakefulc1625
predatory1626
predatorious1641
demolishing1648
untwined1649
undoing1654
destructionable1656
destructful1659
mortal1670
wreckinga1677
fatal1692
quadrumanous1704
interdestructive1805
annihilatory1825
demolitionary1834
ruinatious1845
consumptive1860
thunderous1874
the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > angels with specific tasks
angel of death1565
chorister1584
recording angel1762
death angel1796
destroying angel1814
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Mormonism > [noun] > person > Danite
Danite1838
destroying angel1838
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxi. 8 The destroyenge staff of my sonne, shal bringe downe all wodde.
1728 R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 21 Novelty and Singleness were as destroying..to Art, as..Barbarism.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 92 To oppose the inroad of this destroying host.
1814 R. Southey Roderick xxv Replete with power he is, and terrible, Like some destroying Angel!
1838 Peoria (Illinois) Reg. 24 Nov. 1/5 They had assembled them into three different societies, called Danites, Gideonites, and the destroying Angels.
1857 Congress. Globe 24 Feb. App. 289/3 They suppose that there is a secret society existing there, called Danites, Shanpips, or Destroying Angels.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xii. 106 Half an hour..later we changed horses, and took supper with a Mormon ‘Destroying Angel’.
1894 Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough II. xci. 437 Soul-and-body-destroying debauchery.
1943 B. A. De Voto Year of Decision 83 So in 1842 O. P. Rockwell, one of the Sons of Dan (the ‘Destroying Angels’ of ten-cent fiction), crept up to a window in Boggs's house and shot him.
Draft additions 1993
destroying angel n. a highly poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita, spec. A. virosa.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > poisonous fungi
toad-cheese14..
toadstool1607
fairy mushroom1884
destroying angel1887
1887 W. D. Hay Elem. Text-bk. Brit. Fungi x. 164 Agaricus vernus; Amanita verna; The Destroying Angel... Angelically beautiful and demoniacally poisonous.
1945 J. Ramsbottom Poisonous Fungi 19 Amanita virosus [sic], destroying angel. Amanita verna and Amanita virosa are both closely allied to Amanita phalloides and are often regarded as varieties or sub-species.
1961 W. P. Keller Canada's Wild Glory iv. 171 One variety quite similar to the meadow mushroom but less common and often found in the woods is the Destroying Angel.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia I. 289/2 A[manita] verna and A. virosa, the destroying angels, are the deadliest of all mushrooms. They develop a large white fruiting body and are found in forests during wet periods in summer and autumn.
1990 Times 13 Oct. 18/3 In Britain we have the Death Cap and the Destroying Angel, the world's two deadliest fungi.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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