Collocations for destruction - noun

complete, total, utter, wholesale
large-scale, mass, massive, widespread
modern weapons of mass destruction

rapid
imminent
final, ultimate
systematic
wanton
the wanton destruction of public property

ecological, environmental, forest, habitat, ozone
the environmental destruction caused by road building

property
The earthquake caused loss of life and property destruction.

nuclear
the threat of nuclear destruction which haunts the post-war world

physical
deliberate, intentional
mutual
a war of mutual destruction

bring (about), cause, lead to, result in, wreak (formal)
the destruction brought about by war
He gasped as he saw how much destruction she had wrought with the hammer.

avoid, prevent, stop
Some shopkeepers closed early to prevent the wholesale destruction of their property by the hooligans.

escape, survive
Three of the paintings escaped destruction.
He had miraculously survived the destruction of the spacecraft.

see, watch, witness
He witnessed the destruction of most of his work in a studio fire.

seek
those who seek the destruction of our way of life

leave a trail of destruction
The tornado left a trail of destruction behind it.

the seeds of destruction
By doubling its prices, the industry sowed the seeds of its own destruction.

test sth to destruction (BrE)
Children will quickly test their toys to destruction.