destruct

[ UK /dɪstɹˈʌkt/ ]
[ US /dɪˈstɹəkt/ ]
VERB
  1. destroy (one's own missile or rocket)
    The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons
  2. do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
    The fire destroyed the house
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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
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