(Australia) A government license to kill or remove fauna that would otherwise be protected.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mass, destruction. / (uncountable, idiomatic) Killing of large numbers of people.

simple past tense and past participle of self-destruct

present participle of self-destruct

The state or tendency of being self-destructive.

plural of self-destruction

(logic) A form of reductio ad absurdum which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last.

(economics, capitalism) The process of industrial mutation that continually revolutionizes the economic structure from within.

plural of destruction permit

plural of destructive criticism