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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Crews with heavy machinery began tearing down the shuttered Macy’s store at the Oviedo Mall this week to make way for hundreds of new high-end apartments.

— Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2026
However, if don’t go tearing down your own accept wallpaper just yet.

— Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of tearing down

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Owen did not directly answer Heytens’s hypothetical question, instead insisting that the law at the center of the lawsuit was a violation of the contracts clause of the Constitution, which bars states from passing laws impairing public contracts.

— Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 28 Oct. 2026
This may affect the ability to focus on the environment, especially during movement and changes in direction, thereby impairing balance.

— Kristen Gasnick, Verywell Health, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of impairing

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The express trains would skip local stops in most communities, offering zero service to residents along the rail line while potentially hurting state and federal funding for existing systems such as the CTA and Metra that serve actual commuters.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
Google's problem is that chatbots are becoming an alternative to search, leading consumers to click far fewer blue links and hurting Google's ad revenue.

— Ari Levy, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of hurting

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Earlier this week, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country's military forces had experienced limits on Starshield without warning again, harming their ability to defend against Russia's ongoing aerial attacks.

— Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2026
Ra’am now wants to join the government Segalovitz acknowledged that his background was part of his appeal yet said his larger goal was to break down barriers harming Israeli society.

— Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

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So the biggest question is can Sony change the trajectory of the franchise in terms of Oscar and get the point across that the record-shattering success of this movie is for a reason?

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2026
Misiorowski went 16-5 during the regular season while throwing 1,115 pitches of 100 mph or more for the highest total since tracking started in 2008, shattering the prior mark of 673 by Jordan Hicks in 2018.

— Steve Megargee, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of shattering

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London — Cyberattacks on grocery store refrigeration systems across Europe sent temperatures soaring on Monday, spoiling food and causing significant financial losses in the second such incident in less than a month.

— Inaya Folarin Iman, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images European supermarkets have become the center of another cyberattack, with hackers remotely heating fridges and spoiling food.

— Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2026

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