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Destructive

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing destruction; damaging.

    "The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive."

  2. 2
    Causing breakdown or disassembly.

    "Catabolism is a destructive metabolism that involves the breakdown of molecules and release of energy."

  3. 3
    Lossy; causing irreversible change.

    "Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not."

Adjective
  1. 1
    causing destruction or much damage wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French destructif, from Latin destructivus, from past participle of destruere (“to tear down, destroy”) + -ivus.

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