| Pronunciation: | | di'strukt
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| Matching Terms: | | destructibility, destructible, destructibleness, destruction, destruction fire, destruction, city of, destructionist, destructive, destructive distillation, destructive metabolism, destructively, destructive-metabolic(a), destructiveness, destructor
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- [v] do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"
- [v] destroy (one's own missile or rocket); "The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons"
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| | Synonyms: | | destroy |
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| | See Also: | | break apart, break up, demolish, demyelinate, destruct, dilapidate, disassemble, dismantle, do away with, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, fracture, get rid of, interdict, kill, level, pull down, pulverise, pulverize, rase, raze, self-destroy, self-destruct, sweep away, take apart, take down, tear down, undo, unmake, uproot, wipe out |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*struct"\, v. t. [L. destructus, p. p. of destruere.
See {Destroy}.]
To destroy. [Obs.] --Mede.
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