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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 De·struc·tive a.  Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.
    Time's destructive power.   --Wordsworth.
 Destructive distillation. See Distillation.
 Destructive sorties Logic, a process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio ad absurdum.
 Syn: -- Mortal; deadly; poisonous; fatal; ruinous; malignant; baleful; pernicious; mischievous.