Destructive /(?)/

De·struc·tive

Destructive

a.
  1. 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.
    Time's destructive power.

Phrases & Compounds
Destructive distillation
See Distillation.
Destructive sorties
a process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio ad absurdum.

Destructive

n.
  1. One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.