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DESTRUCT, fro destroy, is not used.
DESTRUCTIBILITY, n. The quality of being capable of destruction.
DESTRUCTIBLE, a. [L.] Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.
DESTRUCTION, n. 1. The act of destroying; demolition; a pulling down; subversion...
DESTRUCTIVE, a. Causing destruction; having the quality of destroying; ruinous; ...
DESTRUCTIVELY, adv. With destruction; ruinously; mischievously; with power to de...
DESTRUCTIVENESS, n. The quality of destroying or ruining.
DESTRUCTOR, n. A destroyer; a consumer. [Not used.]
DESUDATION, n. [L., to sweat.] A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, succeed...
DESUETUDE, n. [L.] The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, cus...
DESULPHURATE, v.t. To deprive of sulphur.
DESULPHURATED, pp. Deprived of sulphur.
DESULPHURATING, ppr. Depriving of sulphur.
DESULPHURATION, n. The act or operation of depriving of sulphur.
DESULTORILY, adv. [See Desultory .] In a desultory manner; without method; loosely.
DESULTORINESS, n. A desultory manner; unconnectedness; a passing from one thing ...