BANGING UP Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

banging up

verb

present participle of bang up

as in wiping out

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Shares slumped 16% for a third straight session of losses, wiping out $400 billion in market cap on Monday alone.

— Gail Krishnan, CNBC, 23 June 2026
The prospect of even a mini-Dust Bowl is alarming as the original disaster during the Great Depression sent dust clouds across rural America, wiping out entire communities and triggering mass migration to other parts of the country.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 21 June 2026

Definition of wiping out

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One data center company, Aligned, is tearing down four high-vacancy office buildings in town, including the former ADP payroll building, to build new data center space.

— Alex Nitkin, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
Curtis said the developer will pay for tearing down the mall and dealing with the building's interior flooding issues.

— Marissa Perlman, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of tearing down

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The strikes hit 12 locations across Kyiv’s Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts, damaging residential buildings, a medical facility and an educational institution.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
Oracle, for its part, argues that Project Jupiter will create massive investment for the region without damaging the environment.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of damaging

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Chronic stress also reshapes the prefrontal cortex, impairing our ability to manage stress overall.

— Erin Clabough, The Conversation, 31 July 2026
Researchers found that even a few days of a high-fat diet resembling cheeseburgers and fries disrupted CCK interneurons in the hippocampus, impairing memory.

— Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026

Definition of impairing

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Sets with unbreakable backboards and breakaway rims are the best type for children because breakable boards and rigid rims can lead to the little ones hurting their fingers.

— BestReviews, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026
Of course, there aren’t a lot of people alive who saw Wheat play, probably hurting him in the voting.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of hurting

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The concerns that led to the committee being created 44 years ago – fears about krill fishing harming krill-dependent Antarctic wildlife – have not diminished over the decades.

— Kim S. Bernard, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, local and federal authorities have launched antitrust probes to investigate how Compass may be harming real estate markets.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of harming

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Meanwhile, epidemiologist Susan Mayne said the government has responded slowly to the record-shattering outbreak that started in May, which demonstrates how the nation's federal food safety programs are in disarray.

— Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 20 Aug. 2026
Majdi described his son’s birth in near-metaphysical terms, his own grief as shattering.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of shattering

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Without spoiling what happens next, the mutants confront Trask, and Mystique assumes his identity to further their mission.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
Decades later, the government was still buying surplus cheese and storing it in vast underground caves in Missouri, Wisconsin, and Kansas, warehouses cool enough to hold the cheese for years without spoiling.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026

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