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{
"term": "destructive",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "causing destruction or damage",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The war demonstrated the destructive power of modern weapons."
},
{
"text": "the destructive effects of anxiety"
},
{
"text": "Opencast coal mining is among the most environmentally destructive activities carried out in Wales."
},
{
"text": "It was a very short-sighted and ultimately destructive plan."
},
{
"text": "These substances can be destructive to health."
},
{
"text": "downright destructive behaviour"
},
{
"text": "environmentally destructive policies"
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "become"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["of", "to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "negative or not helpful",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "destructive behaviour/impulses/tendencies"
},
{
"text": "People have to learn how to handle destructive emotions like anger."
},
{
"text": "They don't think about how damaging and destructive their words are."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrʌktɪv/",
"audio": "de/destructive/destructive__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrʌktɪv/",
"audio": "de/destructive/destructive__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 15th cent.: via Old French from late Latin destructivus, from Latin destruct- ‘destroyed’, from the verb destruere, from de- (expressing reversal) + struere ‘build’."
}