dismantlement

noun

Definition of dismantlementnext
as in eradication

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  1. execution
  2. effacement
  3. slaughter
  4. disintegration
  5. massacre
  6. assassination
  7. collapse
  8. killing
Noun
  • The court denied this plea to stop the execution on Dec. 5.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Over the past 15 years, the state has not carried out any executions, though federal officials conducted 13 executions in 2020 and 2021 at the federal prison in Terre Haute.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of execution
Noun
  • To be fair, the effacement of character is itself one of Leitch’s dramatic points.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
  • There are times in The Years when the betrayal and effacement of May compels Ernaux to say something similar.
    Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
Definition of effacement
Noun
  • The mass slaughter is traced back to Bhagwan Chowdhary, the founder of the Gadhimai temple in Bariyarpur, Bara District.
    Chad de Guzman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
  • As Christmas approaches, and strange occurrences like the mass slaughter of reindeer start to transpire, Pietari and those around him discover the boy is only half-right and the real trouble is even deeper and stranger.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of slaughter
Noun
  • The disintegration of traditional social interaction symbolized by putting smartphones into the hands of children has resulted in surging levels of mental illness and anxiety, according to Gates.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Men, many of whom bought into Trump’s vision of masculinity, are seemingly at odds with women who fear the further disintegration of their rights.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of disintegration
Noun
  • Jones’s site was put up for sale as part of his bankruptcy case in the wake of the nearly $1.5 billion that courts ordered Jones to pay families tied to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings for falsely calling the massacre a hoax.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Last month, The Onion won the bidding for Infowars, which has been forced to sell its assets after a $1.4 billion defamation judgment in favor of the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting massacre.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of massacre
Noun
  • His father, the late Robert F. Kennedy, was a U.S. attorney general who went on to represent New York in the Senate until his 1968 assassination while running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Luigi Mangione Gets Date for New Hearing By Julian Ungar neurologist 7 Ever since footage emerged of the assassination of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, his killer has been held up as a folk hero in a disturbing online trend.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of assassination
Noun
  • Massachusetts officials repeatedly failed to hold Steward Health Care accountable for regulatory violations for over a decade, contributing to the hospital chain's eventual collapse and undermining parts of the state's health care system.
    Mike Deehan, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Lawmaking has largely ground to halt since the government’s collapse.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of collapse
Noun
  • Dawson fled the resort by kayak to a nearby island after the killing.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The killing took place at Turtle Island Fiji, a luxury resort that offers private villas to 14 couples at a time.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of killing
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