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UK
/dɪstɹˈʌkt/
]
[ US /dɪˈstɹəkt/ ]
[ US /dɪˈstɹəkt/ ]
VERB
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destroy (one's own missile or rocket)
The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons -
do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
The fire destroyed the house
How To Use destruct In A Sentence
- She is also part of a large group of oceanographers and taphonomists of the SSETI project (Shelf / Slope Taphonomic Initiative) examining carbonate preservation and destruction across the shelf and slope regions in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas using submersibles.
- Drinkwise Day is mainly designed to educate people about the destructive effects of alcohol abuse.
- At one point a couple of years ago, he says, he thought about ending it all, going out after one last amazing, self-destructive bender.
- It seemed impossible that anyone could come alive through that cyclone of destruction. The Sun
- It seemed impossible that anyone could come alive through that cyclone of destruction. The Sun
- He wanted to scream and shout, beat the wall and call down the forces of destruction.
- Together, they were able to mollify workers and quietly implement the destruction of thousands of jobs.
- Yet the Browns harbour no bitterness towards Waugh over the destruction of their business.
- Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars
- Its total destruction is not a moral imperative for the human race. Times, Sunday Times
