different between hardship vs destruction

English

Etymology

From Middle English hardshipe, equivalent to hard +? -ship.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??d???p/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??d???p/
• Hyphenation: hard?ship

Noun

hardship (countable and uncountable, plural hardships)

1. Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

Antonyms

• softship

Translations

Verb

hardship (third-person singular simple present hardships, present participle hardshipping, simple past and past participle hardshipped)

1. (transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
   • 1969, Tract Series (issues 96-129, page 529)

     […] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]

English

Etymology

From Middle English destruccioun, from Old French destrucion, from Latin d?structi?, d?structi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s?t??k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

destruction (countable and uncountable, plural destructions)

1. The act of destroying.

   The destruction of the condemned building will take place at noon.

2. The results of a destructive event.

   Amid the seemingly endless destruction, a single flower bloomed.

Antonyms

• construction

Hyponyms

• self-destruction

Related terms

Translations

See also

• devastation

Anagrams

• introducest

French

Etymology

From Old French destrucion, borrowed from Latin destructio, destructionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s.t?yk.sj??/

Noun

destruction f (plural destructions)

1. destruction

Derived terms

• arme de destruction massive

Related terms

• détruire

Further reading

• “destruction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).