Aurantimonas coralicida causes a white plague in corals, progressively destroying their tissues and leaving an expanding area that appears bleached.

Bottom trawlers progressively destroy the biogenic structures built over many years on the seafloor by the filter and detritus feeders.

Austin maintains a deadpan expression as Chaplin progressively destroys his clock, then hands the pieces back to Austin.

In 1863 phylloxera first appeared and progressively destroyed the majority of French vineyards except for some in sandy terrain.

SIR - My anguish at all that is progressively destroying our country reaches new heights with this report about pushing the old out of their houses.

Each casting progressively destroys the interior of the mould, so after a relatively limited number of casts, the mould has to be discarded and new ones made from the master.

There is no known cause of A.L.S., which progressively destroys motor neurons to the point where patients can no longer breathe or swallow on their own.

A brain scan showed that these lapses were symptoms of glioblastoma, a brain tumor that progressively destroys language, memory and the ability to move.

Air pollution is a major contributor to C.O.P.D., an irreversible disease that progressively destroys the lungs.

The armed struggle of the second decade of the century progressively destroyed the national state.