destroying, annihilating, shattering, erasing, decimating, vanquishing, wiping, smashing, ruining, eclipsing, wrecking, upending, submerging, dismantling, effacing, ripping, flattening, scorched, conquering, tearing, devouring, banishing, demolishing, crushing, neutralizing, squashing, bettering, burying, besting, puncturing, transcending, removing, toppling, pulverizing, eviscerating, displacing, obscuring, blasting, discarding, smithereens, ridding, altering, massacring, vaporizing, subjugating, bulldozing, pulverise, expunging, capturing, entrenching, eliminating, catapulting, surpassing, deadening, dwarfing, outrunning, walloping, unhinging, nullifying, gutting, smiting, shredding, torching, dooming, uprooting, silencing, ravaging, exploding, eradicating, swamping, exterminating, excising, amassing, trashing, supplanting, betraying, blemished, disintegrating, blanketing, equaling, negating, desecrating, dethroning, confounding, knocking, abandoning, denting, consigning, terrorizing, propelling, besmirching, evoking, bombed, overrunning, incinerating, decapitating, transfiguring, lopping, exorcising, derailing, defeating, snuffing, beatific, blissful, brooding, calm, cloying, disconcerting, electrifying, fatherly, languorous, motherly, overpowering, subduing, trustful, undistracted, unnerving, womanly, affectionate, apprehensive, avuncular, benignant

destructive, obscurant