"destruction" meaning in English

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  "hyphenation": "de‧struc‧tion",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "text": "The destruction of the house was necessary because the walls were not strong and people were not safe from falling bricks."
        },
        {
          "text": "The earthquake caused a lot of destruction."
        }
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        "The destruction of a thing is the act of breaking the thing; the end of existence of the thing. Before the destruction, the thing is there. After the destruction, there is no thing any more."
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          "text": "The destruction of the house was necessary because the walls were not strong and people were not safe from falling bricks."
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        {
          "text": "The earthquake caused a lot of destruction."
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