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DESTRUCT

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of

Example:

The fire destroyed the house

Synonyms:

destroy; destruct

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "destruct" is one way to...):

undo; unmake (deprive of certain characteristics)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "destruct"):

kill (destroy a vitally essential quality of or in)

do away with; eliminate; extinguish; get rid of (terminate, end, or take out)

self-destroy; self-destruct (do away with oneself or itself)

destruct (destroy (one's own missile or rocket))

end (put an end to)

fracture (interrupt, break, or destroy)

sweep away; wipe out (eliminate completely and without a trace)

interdict (destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication)

demolish; pulverise; pulverize (destroy completely)

demolish (ruin or destroy)

break apart; break up; disassemble; dismantle; take apart (take apart into its constituent pieces)

dismantle; level; pull down; rase; raze; take down; tear down (tear down so as to make flat with the ground)

eradicate; exterminate; extirpate; root out; uproot (destroy completely, as if down to the roots)

dilapidate (bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse)

demyelinate (destroy the myelin sheath of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Destroy (one's own missile or rocket)

Example:

The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "destruct" is one way to...):

destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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