destructively

[US]/di'strʌktivli/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. in a manner that causes damage or harm

Example Sentences

1. The larva of a pyralid moth (Diaphania nitidalis) of the southern Atlantic and Gulf states of the United States, that feeds destructively on cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, and other gourds.

The storm hit the town destructively, causing widespread damage.

He tends to react destructively when he is under stress.

The fire spread destructively through the forest, destroying everything in its path.

The virus can spread destructively if not contained properly.

Some people cope with their emotions destructively, resorting to harmful behaviors.

The company's decision to downsize impacted employees destructively.

Using drugs destructively can have serious consequences on one's health.

The student's behavior in class was disruptive and destructively affected the learning environment.

The hacker attacked the website destructively, causing it to crash.

Misusing power can lead to destructively abusing authority.

Real-world Examples

And then in some places, as the light combines, it combines constructively and other places destructively.

Source: PBS Fun Science Popularization

And just like in an opal, light is bent, waves combine constructively or destructively, and different flashes of color appear.

Source: PBS Fun Science Popularization

The places where the waves interfere destructively become shadows.

Source: Crash Course Physics

And again, whether the light interferes constructively or destructively depends on how the rays line up.

Source: Crash Course Physics

So light waves will interfere either constructively or destructively, depending on the size of this path difference.

Source: Crash Course Physics

Or more destructively, that they can't go to a normal schoolor hold a normal job or travel on their own.

Source: TED Talks (Video Edition) July 2023 Collection

But waves interfere DEstructively when one wave's crest run into the other wave's trough, and vice versa.

Source: Crash Course Physics

And, if ideas truly are more powerful than force, we should use them constructively and not destructively — in so far as that's possible.

Source: Tales of Imagination and Creativity

But when the waves are shifted by exactly half a wavelength — or by 1.5 wavelengths, or 2.5, and so on – light rays will interfere DEstructively.

Source: Crash Course Physics

We're interfering waves together, that's what interferometry means and so if those waves move back and forth a little bit when you interfere them they destructively interfere and you lose your signal.

Source: PBS Space Science

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