destruct
Verb
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Destroy (one's own missile or rocket) (synset 201623725)
"The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons"
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Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of (synset 201622948)
"The fire destroyed the house"subtypes:
- 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
same as: destroy
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