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adjective
1.
serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
noun
2.
the act or process of intentional destruction: One out of ten launchings ended in destructs.
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verb (used with object)
3.
to destroy.
verb (used without object)
4.
to be destroyed.
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Word Origin & History
destruct
"to destroy," 1958, probably a back formation from destruction in the jargon of U.S. aerospace and defense workers to refer to deliberate destruction of a missile in flight by a friendly agent, popularized 1966 in form self-destruct in the voice-over at the beginning
EXPANDof popular TV spy drama "Mission Impossible." OED records an isolated use of destruct from 17c., in this case probably from L. destruct-, pp. stem of destruere.
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