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English → English (gcide) Definition: Destructor Destructor \De*struc"tor\, n. [L., from destruere. See Destroy, and cf. Destroyer.] 1. A destroyer. [R.] [1913 Webster] Fire, the destructor and the artificial death of things. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] 2. A furnace or oven for the burning or carbonizing of refuse; specif. (Sewage Disposal), a furnace (called in full refuse destructor) in which the more solid constituents of sewage are burnt. Destructors are often so constructed as to utilize refuse as fuel. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 3. (Computers) in object-oriented programming, a function which destroys an object which was previously created by a different function. [PJC]