DESTRUCTIVE
\dɪstɹˈʌktɪv], \dɪstɹˈʌktɪv], \d_ɪ_s_t_ɹ_ˈʌ_k_t_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of DESTRUCTIVE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.
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One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
By Oddity Software
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Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.
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One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
By Noah Webster.
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Deadly; tending to, or causing, desolation; ruinous; hurtful.
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Destructively.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Destructively.
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Causing destruction: mischievous: ruinous: deadly.
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DESTRUCTIVENESS.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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A destroyer, especially of old structures or institutions; a radical reformer. Destructive distillation, the process of decomposing organic substances in retorts at a high temperature, and obtaining useful products from them, as gas from coal so treated.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Deadly; fatal; causing destruction; mischievous; wasteful.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
