Definition of destructive

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Destructive (a.) 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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Fatal :: Fatal (a.) Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error..
Baneful :: Baneful (a.) Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.
Internecine :: Internecine (a.) Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive..
Acetone :: Acetone (n.) A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime..
Shendful :: Shendful (a.) Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful.
Deathful :: Deathful (a.) Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
Fatiferous :: Fatiferous (a.) Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive.
Liparian :: Liparian (n.) Any species of a family (Liparidae) of destructive bombycid moths, as the tussock moths..
Self-destructive :: Self-destructive (a.) Destroying, or tending to destroy, one's self or itself; rucidal..
Wolf :: Wolf (a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf..
Caterpillar :: Caterpillar (n.) The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutw
Sandworm :: Sandworm (n.) Any species of annelids of the genus Sabellaria. They construct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are sometimes destructive to oysters..
Burn :: Burn (v. i.) To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever..
Attack :: Attack (n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent..
Eupione :: Eupione (n.) A limpid, oily liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of various vegetable and animal substances; -- specifically, an oil consisting largely of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series..
Zimb :: Zimb (n.) A large, venomous, two-winged fly, native of Abyssinia. It is allied to the tsetse fly, and, like the latter, is destructive to cattle..
Pernicious :: Pernicious (a.) Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
Destructive :: Destructive (n.) One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
Zebub :: Zebub (n.) A large noxious fly of Abyssinia, which like the tsetse fly, is destructive to cattle..
Glanders :: Glanders (n.) A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings..
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