单词 | destruct |
释义 | destruct (once / 40478 pages) v When you destruct something, you destroy or wreck it. A developer might buy an old building in order to destruct it and build a shiny new one in its place. The verb destruct isn't as common as its relatives, destructive, destruction, and self-destruct, but you can use it to mean "wipe out" or "destroy." Your doctor might worry that your lack of sleep and frequent soda drinking will destruct your health, and a kindergartner will probably wail in frustration if her little brother destructs her Lego creation. Destruct comes from destruction, most likely as 1950's US defense industry jargon. WORD FAMILYdestruct: destructed, destructing, destructs, self-destruct+/self-destruct: self-destructed, self-destructing USAGE EXAMPLESTo Self Destruct has entered at number two, while Bruno Mars's 24K Magic has debuted at three. BBC(Nov 25, 2016) The process is gradual but damages the tissues and organs progressively destructing cells. Washington Times(Oct 16, 2016) There is something oddly memorizing about watching a steamroller unable to completely destruct a golf ball. Golf Digest(Oct 05, 2016) 1v do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of Syn|Hypo|Hyper destroy kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid ofterminate, end, or take out self-destroy, self-destructdo away with oneself or itself endput an end to fractureinterrupt, break, or destroy sweep away, wipe outeliminate completely and without a trace interdictdestroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication demolish, pulverise, pulverizedestroy completely break apart, break up, disassemble, dismantle, take aparttake apart into its constituent pieces dismantle, level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear downtear down so as to make flat with the ground eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root out, uprootdestroy completely, as if down to the roots dilapidatebring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse demyelinatedestroy the myelin sheath of cancel out, wipe outwipe out the effect of something decouplereduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) decoupleeliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) obliteratedo away with completely, without leaving a trace knock outeliminate drownget rid of as if by submerging cut outdelete or remove cut, prune, rationalise, rationalizeweed out unwanted or unnecessary things extinguish, snuff output an end to; kill except, exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take outprevent from being included or considered or accepted bulldozeflatten with or as if with a bulldozer undo, unmake deprive of certain characteristics 2v destroy (one's own missile or rocket) The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons Hyper destroy do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of |
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