(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.
(n.) One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
Example Sentences:
(1) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
(2) High mortality, severe destruction of pancreatic B-cells and presence of sporadic mononuclear infiltrations in islets and around excretory ducts were observed.
(3) Lung metastases leading to death were observed in one patient with small-cell osteosarcoma despite complete destruction of the primary tumor by preoperative chemotherapy.
(4) Since alkaline phosphatase, a glycoprotein, is not affected, the destruction is selective and presumably involves only the most exposed membrane components.
(5) Intravenous urography revealed destruction of the right kidney resembling Wilms tumor.
(6) Lawmakers across the globe are beginning to recognize the need to deter this destructive conduct.
(7) Finally, the uptake was completely abolished by prior mechanical or osmotic destruction of the intima.
(8) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
(9) While a clearcut relationship cannot be established between heavy metal music and destructive behavior, evidence shows that such music promotes and supports patterns of drug abuse, promiscuous sexual activity, and violence.
(10) Quite the contrary, in cases of higher nervous activity disturbances, destruction of the organelles and desintegration of spine apparatuses is clearly pronounced.
(11) Granule cell destruction began early, and was widespread by 2 days in vitro, when oligodendrocyte destruction also began in treated cultures.
(12) The ferrochelatase-inhibitory activity, porphyrin-inducing activity, and cytochrome P-450- and heme-destructive effects of a variety of analogues of 3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-1,4-dihydro-2,4,6-trimethylpyridine (DDC) were studied in chick embryo liver cells.
(13) A simple technique that consists of curetting the subcutaneous tissue in the necrotic area of the lesion, to prevent the local destructive actions of the toxin, is described.
(14) The high proteolytic activity of BCC demonstrated in this study may be an important factor in the proliferative, invasive and destructive behaviour of this tumour.
(15) North Korea has produced tons of propaganda films that portray America’s destruction.
(16) The object of these studies was to investigate whether destruction of the renal medulla in normal rats would alter vascular capacitance.
(17) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(18) The tissue destructive process is slower in older than in younger people, and the prognoses in correctly treated cases is good.
(19) Although these two destructive entities are completely different in many respects, they share a common denominator: the initial lesions are brought about by an aggregate of bacteria known as plaque.
(20) It is concluded that the massive destruction of the normal anatomy in the lateral semicircular canal may be the morphological basis of a functional endolymphatic fistula for drainage of the endolymphatic hydrops.
Internecine
Definition:
(a.) Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Arab League warned of a "disastrous outcome" to internecine fighting that has been waged on and off for more than six months.
(2) Seems to me, there isn't quite a Slumdog or a King's Speech this year to grab the popular British attention, and we don't yet have the internecine drama of, say, a race boiling down to Avatar vs Hurt Locker .
(3) Paul Sonne (@PaulSonne) Seems like the blame game, internecine warfare amongst the rebels might have just been stepped up a notch.
(4) Rather, Rauf’s severance from the Taliban seems to be proof of a widening internecine struggle within the Afghan militant opposition.
(5) Labour progressives might find it all too easy to dismiss these events as a fortuitous bout of internecine warfare on the right.
(6) Either way, it is feared that internecine conflict is paralysing the party that has dominated South Africa since the dawn of democracy 17 years ago.
(7) Such internecine struggles between militant groups may seem esoteric to casual observers.
(8) The committee said successive federation chairmen have become "enmired in interminable internecine power-struggles that would not have been out of place in a medieval court".
(9) The spat over whether the education department has diverted £400m of its budget away from local authority schools into Gove's pet free schools programme is essentially an internecine one between the coalition parties.
(10) Winnie's enthusiasm for violence, even in the internecine struggle between anti-apartheid activists, is not glossed over, and nor is her apparent enthusiasm for "necklacing" – a sadistic method of execution in which the victim is bound with a rubber tyre, doused with petrol and burned to death.
(11) They allege a lack of respect and tolerance, sustained and ongoing to the point that successive chairs of the organisation have found themselves "enmired in interminable, internecine power-struggles which would not have been out of place in a medieval court".
(12) What began as classic congressional deadlock between a Republican-dominated House and a Democratic-controlled Senate has become an internecine dispute between the Tea Party movement and more moderate Republicans.
(13) The police admit failing to consider that the killings might have been racially motivated, and for a long time they were viewed as individual incidents, the consequence of internecine strife within Germany’s Turkish community.
(14) Along with charges of cronyism and patronage, the ANC is fractured by internecine warfare .
(15) In March of that year, his righthand man in Sicily, Salvo Lima, was murdered by the mafia in what was seen as an internecine dispute (Lima was also the link between Andreotti and the mafia).
(16) It had wealth, was near Europe, had neighbours who were headed in the same direction, and it’s people had not, unlike Bosnia, for example, fought against each other in internecine civil war.” He adds, “This is what is so tragic about the situation today.” This article appeared in Guardian Weekly , which incorporates material from the Washington Post
(17) Iannucci and his team put together a tightly disciplined cast of energetic improvisers to portray the back-stabbing, internecine world of US politics.
(18) Tom Watson, the frontrunner in the Labour deputy leadership contest, will say on Monday that plans by supporters of Corbyn to force every Labour MP to face a reselection battle would amount to a “charter for internecine strife”.
(19) Having lived through an era of internecine struggle, it will be perhaps cathartic for both the brothers and their party to demonstrate that fraternity is still possible however close and tortured the election outcome.
(20) Corbyn atom Members of rival political parties that stand candidates against Labour are not allowed to join, but some MPs complain that veterans of its bitter internecine struggles in the 1980s, some of them allied to banned groups, are involved in the current battles.