destructuring
destructuring is the present participle and gerund of destructure.
Meaning of destructure
Verb
destructure (third-person singular simple present destructures, present participle destructuring, simple past and past participle destructured)
Noun
destructuring (countable and uncountable, plural destructurings)
- The process by which something is destructured.
- But if man can accept initiation to see that Lilith is his long-lost primordial wife, then the energies of destruction can be transmuted and taken up into the creative destructuring of the old civilization, the industrial civilization that humanity has already outgrown.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 251
Forms of destructuring
| plural | destructurings |
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Questions about destructuring
- What does destructuring mean?
- Destructuring means the process by which something is destructured.
- What is destructuring the present participle and gerund of?
- Destructuring is the present participle and gerund of destructure.
- What part of speech is destructuring?
- Destructuring is a noun.
- What is the plural of destructuring?
- The plural of destructuring is destructurings.
Words near destructuring in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: destructuring (page history and authors); destructure (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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