destroying



baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, deleterious, desolating, destructive, devastating, disastrous, disposal, fatal, fateful,

   borne out - ascertained, attested, authenticated, certified, confirmed, corroborated, demonstrated, determined, established, fixed, proved, proven, settled, shown, substantiated,

   oozing - awash, discharge, drenched, dripping wet, drowned, engulfed, excretion, filtering, filtration, flooded, immersed, inundated, leak, ooze, percolation,

   clothes pin - button, fastener, girth, hanger, hook, lacing, suspender ,

   umbilicus - axis, centre, centre of action, centre of gravity, centroid, core, dead centre, epicentre, heart, hub, kernel, marrow, medulla, middle, nave,

   evaluate - appraise, appreciate, approximate, ascertain, assay, assess, calculate, calibrate, call, calliper, catalogue, categorize, check a parameter, class, classify,

   xenophobe - bigot, misanthrope, misogynist, racist ,

   brain-born - Gothic, baroque, bizarre, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, florid, grotesque, maggoty, notional, outlandish, preposterous, rococo, whimsical, wild ,

   stepson - child, daughter, descendant, heiress, offspring, scion, son, sonny, stepchild, stepmother ,

   one small difficulty - block, blockade, bottleneck, catch, cordon, curtain, deterrent, difficulty, drawback, hang up, hazard, hitch, hurdle, joker, objection,

   conniving - Byzantine, Machiavellian, calculating, coefficient, collaborative, collective, collectivist, collusive, combined, common, communal, communist, communistic, communitarian, concerted,