Vocabulary
Destructive
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
causing great and irreparable damage.
Urdu meaning
تباہ کن، تباہی، برباد کرنےوالا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- It also imposes significant costs on businesses in multiple ways as Pakistan`s vulnerability to destructive climate-induced events increases by the day.
- Cyclone Tauktae (2021), one of the deadliest cyclones in the Arabian Sea, devastated India`s west coast before bringing destructive rain and ferocious winds, forcing evacuations and causing infrastructure disruptions.
- The key debate is on the extent of middle-class complicity in encouraging destructive patterns of real estate development in Pakistan.
- And right now, that interest is clear socially and ecologically destructive uses of land, whether legally planned or illegally active, need to be stopped.
- To learn from climate disasters, Pakistan must `unlearn` destructive practices: ending floodplain encroachment and not treating communal lands as private profit centres.
Synonyms
devastating, ruinous, disastrous, catastrophic, calamitous, cataclysmic
Antonyms
non-violent, creative
Curator example
“the destructive power of weapons”
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