The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word HOLOCAUST which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1959.
Destruction by fire crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HOLOCAUST | 100 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Destruction by fire
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Crossword Answer definitions
HOLOCAUST noun- A sacrifice that is completely burned to ashes.
- Extensive destruction of a group (usually of people or animals), whether by deliberate agency or by natural agency (especially fire).
- In particular, a state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group, especially the Holocaust (which see).
- To sacrifice and burn (an animal) completely.
- To destroy completely, especially by fire.
- (possibly nonstandard) To subject to a holocaust (mass annihilation); to destroy en masse. (Compare genocide.)
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