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demolish

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of demolish

1 to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to pieces
  • Developers demolished the old warehouse to make room for the new shopping mall.
Synonyms of demolish

level, pull down, raze, tear down, unbuild
Words Related to demolish

blow up, dynamite

abolish, annihilate, crack up, crush, dash, decimate, destroy, devastate, devour, dissolve, do in, eradicate, extirpate, finish, flatten, obliterate, overturn, pulverize, ravage, ruin, scourge, smash, total, unmake, waste, wipe out, wreck
Near Antonyms of demolish

build, construct, erect, put up, raise

rebuild, renew, renovate, restore

create, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, make, manufacture, shape
2 to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of
  • The old barn was demolished by the heavy snow that had piled upon the roof.
Synonyms of demolish

annihilate, cream, decimate, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, extinguish, nuke, pull down, pulverize, raze, rub out, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, total, vaporize, waste, wrack, wreck
Words Related to demolish

beat, best, clobber, conquer, crush, defeat, drub, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), rout, scotch, skunk, subdue, surmount, thrash, trim, triumph (over), trounce, wallop, whip, win (against)

blast, blow up, break, cripple, damage, deface, deteriorate, disfigure, disintegrate, dissolve, dynamite, harm, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mutilate, spoil, vitiate

erode, scour, sweep (away), wash out, wear (away)

dilapidate, disassemble, dismantle, gut, take down, unbuild, undo, unmake

blot out, efface, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root (out), snuff (out), stamp (out), wipe out

despoil, havoc, loot, pillage, plunder, ravage, sack, trample, trash, vandalize
Near Antonyms of demolish

doctor, fix, mend, patch, recondition, repair, revamp

create, invent

assemble, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, make, manufacture, mold, produce, shape

bring about, constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize

conserve, preserve, protect, save

rebuild, reconstruct, remodel, renovate, restore
Antonyms of demolish

build, construct, erect, put up, raise, rear, set up
3 to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive
  • The children demolished the piñata.
Synonyms of demolish

blast, blow, blow up, burst, explode, pop, shatter, smash
Words Related to demolish

dynamite

annihilate, decimate, destroy

ruin, wreck

detonate, discharge

fragment, splinter
Near Antonyms of demolish

collapse, implode

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