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What is the adjective for destroying?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs destroy, destruct, destroi and destructure which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

destructive
  1. Causing destruction; damaging.
  2. Causing breakdown or disassembly.
  3. (computing) Lossy; causing irreversible change.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. calamitous, catastrophic, devastating, ruinous, cataclysmic, fatal, disastrous, damaging, harmful, hurtful, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, deadly, lethal, deleterious, injurious, cataclysmal, violent, wounding, annihilatory, baleful, brutal, crippling, damning, dangerous, devastative, disadvantageous, fateful, fierce, ravaging, savage, unfortunate, baneful, dire, maleficent, annihilative, cancerous, consumptive, cutthroat, eradicative, erosive, evil, extirpative, internecine, lethiferous, mortal, noisome, pestiferous, pestilential … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “The article details the devastation from one of the most destructive events in human history.”
      “One of the problems destructive criticism is that it saps your confidence.”
      “The biggest danger of QE one that no economist would deny is the destructive inflation that it unleashes.”
destructible
  1. Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. breakable, destroyable, wreckable, brittle, fragile, weak, frangible, crumbly, shatterable, fracturable, friable, delicate, flimsy, vulnerable, frail, insubstantial, decrepit, splintery, easily broken, unstable, shattery, smashable, feeble, easily destroyed, fine, insecure, tender, eggshell, unsound, tenuous, ramshackle, disintegrating, decaying, crumbling, dodgy, falling to pieces, ruinable, crispy, vitreous, crisp, easily damaged, rickety, jerry-built, shaky, light, wobbly, tottery, makeshift, slight, gimcrack … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “These textures can be so generic that they mask many of the destructible items as they blend into the environment.”
      “For the most part, the team did a pretty good job making the settings look decent with destructible buildings and pseudo-realistic fire effects.”
      “The new levels and goals are excellent, with plenty of variation and more destructible environments.”
destroyed
  1. (Ireland, informal) (particularly of a child) soiled, muddied, especially as a result of a fall or spill.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. devastated, ruined, wrecked, demolished, ravaged, shattered, abolished, smashed, annihilated, disintegrated, eradicated, blighted, damaged, obliterated, razed, wasted, blasted, broken, consumed, felled, gutted, lost, overwhelmed, in flames, in pieces, in shreds, torn down, wiped out, rekt, dismantled, tarnished, desolated, spoiled, spoilt, harmed, blown-up, junked, pwned, owned, in ruins, bombed, desolate, erased, removed, burned-out, falling down about one's ears, withered, blotted out, tainted, laid to waste … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The community was stunned silent when they arrived to see the destroyed buildings.”
destroyable
  1. Able to be destroyed.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. breakable, fragile, destructible, weak, brittle, frangible, vulnerable, frail, crumbly, friable, smashable, splintery, insubstantial, decrepit, shatterable, fracturable, feeble, easily broken, easily destroyed, delicate, fine, flimsy, insecure, unstable, eggshell, wreckable, unsound, tenuous, ramshackle, disintegrating, decaying, crumbling, dodgy, falling to pieces, rickety, wobbly, shaky, tottery, jerry-built, light, slight, unsteady, shattery, makeshift, easily damaged, dainty, gimcrack, shoddy, badly built, tottering … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The enemy's stronghold was fortified with destroyable walls, awaiting the besieging army's attack.”
      “Bots are sleepy and invulnerable, you cant destroy the crates or any destroyable object.”
      “They are strictly unmovable, but are capturable and destroyable, and made obstacles to the traffic.”
destroying
  1. present participle of destroy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ruining, wrecking, devastating, demolishing, spoiling, smashing, torpedoing, wasting, ravaging, totalling, totaling, desolating, dismantling, felling, leveling, levelling, pulverising, pulverizing, razing, sinking, trashing, blasting, crashing, decimating, dynamiting, gutting, wracking, bombing, breaking up, creaming, exploding, knocking down, nuking, pulling down, scourging, smiting, taking, tearing down, blowing up, breaking, breaking down, maiming, marauding, mutilating, overcoming, ravishing, spoliating, vaporising, vaporizing, blowing sky-high … more
destructed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of destruct
  2. Synonyms:
      3. demolished, wrecked, ruined, devastated, razed, decimated, pulverised, pulverized, leveled, levelled, dismantled, tore down, torn down, wiped out, destroyed, shattered, annihilated, totalled, totaled, smashed, desolated, wasted, wracked, vaporized, extinguished, nuked, vaporised, pulled down, rubbed out, put out of commission, put out of action, laid waste, put paid to, put the kibosh on, creamed, done in, did in, flattened, bulldozed, dashed, crushed, blighted, overturned, blasted, nixed, scotched, banjaxed, torpedoed, unbuilt, removed … more
destructing
  1. present participle of destruct
  2. Synonyms:
      3. demolishing, wrecking, ruining, devastating, razing, decimating, pulverising, pulverizing, leveling, levelling, dismantling, tearing down, wiping out, destroying, shattering, annihilating, totalling, totaling, smashing, desolating, wasting, wracking, vaporizing, creaming, extinguishing, nuking, vaporising, pulling down, rubbing out, doing in, laying waste, dynamiting, crushing, blasting, blighting, overturning, dashing, nixing, banjaxing, torpedoing, scotching, dishing, scuppering, trashing, overthrowing, queering, toppling, defeating, tumbling, laying in ruins … more
destroiing
  1. present participle of destroi
destructured
  1. simple past tense and past participle of destructure
destructuring
  1. present participle of destructure
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