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Destructiveness

The quality of destroying or ruining.

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Injuriousness 76% connected

The quality of being injurious or hurtful; harmfulness; injury.

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Poison 76% connected

Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a dea…

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Destructive 74% connected

Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- ofte…

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Destructive 74% connected

Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- ofte…

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Ability noun · 86% connection

the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

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Accuracy noun · 86% connection

(mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number; "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much grea…

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Adequacy noun · 86% connection

the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"

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Air noun · 86% connection

a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…

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Appearance noun · 86% connection

outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

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Aridity noun · 86% connection

the quality of yielding nothing of value

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Asset noun · 86% connection

a useful or valuable quality

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Atmosphere noun · 86% connection

a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…

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Attraction noun · 86% connection

the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; "her personality held a strange attraction for him"

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Aura noun · 86% connection

a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…

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Bad noun · 86% connection

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"

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Badness noun · 86% connection

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"

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Barrenness noun · 86% connection

the quality of yielding nothing of value

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Believability noun · 86% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Brachycephalism noun · 86% connection

the quality of being brachycephalic

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Brachycephaly noun · 86% connection

the quality of being brachycephalic

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Credibility noun · 86% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Credibleness noun · 86% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Aborticide noun · 78% connection

The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.

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Acid noun · 78% connection

One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetab…

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Adjutant noun · 78% connection

A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. I…

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Annihilation noun · 78% connection

The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists,…

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Anticontagious adjective · 78% connection

Opposing or destroying contagion.

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Apositic adjective · 78% connection

Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.

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Army worm unknown · 78% connection

A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and…

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Assart noun · 78% connection

The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.

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Cankerworm noun · 78% connection

The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying…

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Cannonade noun · 78% connection

The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or for…

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Caustical adjective · 78% connection

Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

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Corrode verb · 78% connection

To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong ac…

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Corrosive adjective · 78% connection

Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive acti…

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