banging up

verb

present participle of bang up
as in wiping out

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for banging up
  1. wiping out
  2. tearing down
  3. damaging
  4. impairing
  5. hurting
  6. harming
  7. shattering
  8. spoiling
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Mercury is a big network with an independent spirit, tearing down gatekeepers and giving a platform to the best indie shows.
    — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • That will take Major League Soccer tearing down all the walls.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
Definition of tearing down
Verb
  • Engineers can spot a bad move inside a crowded virtual home before the machine risks damaging something or moving too close to a person.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2026
  • Crowds of people—including the relatives of patients—stormed Ituri’s Nyakunde Hospital, throwing stones and damaging its perimeter fence on July 15, according to Reuters.
    — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 22 July 2026
Definition of damaging
Verb
  • 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
  • The complete assembly weighs just enough for the Madagascar hissing cockroach, a species favored for cyborg research because of its large size, robustness, and wingless body, to carry without significantly impairing its movement.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 July 2026
Definition of impairing
Verb
  • This unwanted chemical warfare degrades the materials from the inside out, severely hurting performance and shortening the battery’s lifespan.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 July 2026
  • On Tuesday, KeyBanc downgraded Apple to a sell on concerns about price hikes hurting demand.
    — Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 15 July 2026
Definition of hurting
Verb
  • The administration’s proposal risks harming both the historic building and the system of reviews that protects structures like it.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 24 July 2026
  • Here are four foods that may seem healthy but may actually be harming your heart, according to cardiologists.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 23 July 2026
Definition of harming
Verb
  • The tax, generally considered a barometer of the tourist industry’s health, has been on a 14-month tear, shattering all monthly revenue records and outpacing the rosiest of predictions by its closest followers.
    — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2026
  • While the franchise dates way back to gaming’s 16-bit era, its most recent release, 2020’s Streets of Rage 4, hit like a jaw-shattering Grand Hook with critics and fans alike.
    — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026
Definition of shattering
Verb
  • The same relentlessness that built Ackman’s reputation as a scourge of corporate excess—and, to critics, a bully spoiling for a fight—has increasingly spilled beyond balance sheets and boardrooms.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 July 2026
  • Without spoiling too much, Rick and Morty make a cameo in the pilot in a very meta scene.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 6 July 2026
Definition of spoiling
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