Destruction

Roles: destructive-force, target-object, impact, debris, structural-failure, demolition, wreckage

The breaking, smashing, and demolition of physical objects and structures. As a source domain, destruction provides vivid imagery for any process that reduces something functional to something ruined: hammering, smashing, wrecking, demolishing, shattering. The frame emphasizes sudden violent force applied to a thing that cannot withstand it, the moment of impact, and the resulting wreckage. Unlike war, which involves strategy, sides, and territorial stakes, destruction focuses narrowly on the act of breaking and its aftermath.

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