Destruction
Destruction noun - The state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless.
Making is an antonym for destruction.
Making
Making noun - The act that results in something coming to be.
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- He postulated that the Civil War was the only such event that could be faced without the utter destruction of mankind, making it the Lesser of Two Evils.
Source: Author's Saving Throw - While the old Team Plasma is making amends for what they did in the previous games, the new Team Plasma throws out the liberating Pokémon aspect and embodies world domination/destruction.
Source: Happy Ending Override -
In Poul Anderson's After Doomsday, the destruction of Earth is unprecedented, making the evidence that humanity did it all the more painful.
Source: Humans Are Bastards
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