destructive
adjective
tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of orto ).
nondestructively
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a word derived from
destructive.
Example Sentences
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The study authors scanned the fossils using synchrotron X-ray imaging, nondestructively imaging and reconstructing the fossils in 3D.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 23, 2022
Numerous young men began carefully and nondestructively taking down the pictures from the wall.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead it suggests that for a long time clever people who knew tricks that we have yet to learn used big chunks of Amazonia nondestructively.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
