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What does destructive mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word destructive? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Causing destruction; damaging.
  2. Causing breakdown or disassembly.
  3. (computing) Lossy; causing irreversible change.
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In 1978, a tropical cyclone, with destructive winds and huge waves, washed away large sections of the jetty near the shore.
The biggest danger of QE one that no economist would deny is the destructive inflation that it unleashes.
Are his destructive escapades nothing more than random luck and blind chance?
From her wasted and emaciated appearance, we may fairly infer, she also fell a martyr to this destructive and poisonous liquid.
In 568 the Lombards invaded, a people even more wantonly destructive than the Vandals.
Anyway, we don't need a strong army, we just need a few destructive strikes before the Jovians are prepared.

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