{
    "term": "destructive",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "causing destruction or damage",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The war demonstrated the destructive power of modern weapons."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the destructive effects of anxiety"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Opencast coal mining is among the most environmentally destructive activities carried out in Wales."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was a very short-sighted and ultimately destructive plan."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These substances can be destructive to health."
                },
                {
                    "text": "downright destructive behaviour"
                },
                {
                    "text": "environmentally destructive policies"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem", "become"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["of", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "negative or not helpful",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "destructive behaviour/impulses/tendencies"
                },
                {
                    "text": "People have to learn how to handle destructive emotions like anger."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They don't think about how damaging and destructive their words are."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrʌktɪv/",
                "audio": "de/destructive/destructive__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrʌktɪv/",
                "audio": "de/destructive/destructive__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent.: via Old French from late Latin destructivus, from Latin destruct- ‘destroyed’, from the verb destruere, from de- (expressing reversal) + struere ‘build’."
}