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say it: di-STRUHKT
destruct is a verb meaning "destroy (one's own missile or rocket)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
destroy (one's own missile or rocket)
“The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons”
do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
“The fire destroyed the house”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for destruct come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.