destruct

Verb

Verb Forms: destructed, destructing, destructs

• To destroy, especially by planned demolition.
• 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
• To intentionally cause the destruction of.
• To invoke the destructor of.
• To self-destruct.

Examples

• His risky play threatened to DESTRUCT his own board setup, but it paid off.

Synonyms

destroy