Synonyms:
destructive
Meaning: causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"
Usage examples
But Foma can only be destructive.
They could not get within ten yards of the fort, our fire was so destructive.
Wild dogs are also very destructive, and often caused great losses among our sheep and goats.
he will punish him for introducing a practice which is equally subversive and destructive of ship or State.
But you say you are conservative--eminently conservative--while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something, of the sort.
Hence the criticism of knowledge which philosophy employs must not be of this destructive kind, if any result is to be achieved.
Fire from water, warmth and moisture from the destructive breath of the tempest, this was the riddle of riddles to the untutored mind.
He rewarded mankind for the services they rendered to him; he was their leader and instructor; he achieved for them the victories over the destructive forces of nature.
Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive of Jane's happiness, and so dishonorable to the stability of her lover, she could not prevent its frequently occurring.
A network of canals was constructed throughout the country, which restricted the destructive tendencies of the Tigris and Euphrates and developed to a high degree their potentialities as fertilizing agencies.