destructive
adjective
tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of orto ).
destructively
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a word derived from
destructive.
Example Sentences
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They can eat a quarter of their body weight in vegetation, burrow destructively and ravage waterways and ecosystems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
The scattered waves then interfere constructively or destructively, resulting in bright or dark spots respectively.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024
Then we would be on a destructively different planet in a fashion that might seem almost unimaginable today.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2024
But he said our capacity "to disagree deeply and not destructively" is cause for hope.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2023
The unjust, unequal, prohibitory system of duties, which operates most destructively on the interests of the people of the frontier. 3d.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper
