disrupticadj.
rare.
Of or pertaining to the disruption or breaking up (of organic structures).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective]
ruptive?a1425
chinking1578
breaking1597
chapping1610
obrumpent1656
disrumpent1657
snapping1823
fracturing1830
disrupting1849
disruptic1889
the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [adjective] > degeneration or disruption
degradational1863
vestigial1877
disruptic1889
degradative1940
1889 P. Geddes & J. A. Thomson Evol. Sex 88 The ascending, synthetic, constructive series of changes are termed ‘anabolic’; the descending, disruptic series, ‘katabolic’.
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