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The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness.

Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.

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 distill…

The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.

g devastated; a laying waste. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done. Goldsmith.

by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames. No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord . . . shall be sold or redeemed. Lev. xxvii. 28.

Destruction; dispersion. Bp. Horsley.

The act of disorganizing; destruction of system.

Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin. To make a present dissolution of the world. Hooker.

A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin. Dire were the consequences which would follow the downfall of so important a place. Motley.

One who uses dynamite; esp., one who uses it for the destruction of life and property.

rst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle. Milton. Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. Sir W. Scott.

Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction. Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. Pope. Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end. Shak. I shall see an end of him. Shak.

Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.

The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

To escape from; to avoid. [Obs.] He who obeys, destruction shall eschew. Sandys.

The act of eversing; destruction. Jer. Taylor.

The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction. Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision. Atterbury.

elf to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat. Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. Shak.

The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.