destructive
/dɪˈstɹʌktɪv/ adjective B1- Causing destruction; damaging.
- Causing breakdown or disassembly. · Catabolism is a destructive metabolism that involves the breakdown of molecules and release of energy.
- Lossy; causing irreversible change. · Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.
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For the first time our eyes rested upon this presentment of the great emperor, which seemed to raise such frantic and destructive hatred in the mind of the unknown.
The triggers had been wired together, so as to make the simultaneous discharge more destructive.
Some day, when the world is much older, and when mankind will be masters of all the destructive powers in nature, to serve for the general good of humanity; when mankind, as you were just saying, have discovered the secrets of death, then that death will become as sweet and voluptuous as a slumber in the arms of your beloved.”
THE OXEN once upon a time sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced a trade destructive to their race.
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