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demolish
Synonyms and Antonyms of demolish
- developers demolished the old warehouse to make room for the new shopping mall
- most of the buildings in the town had been demolished in the bombing raid
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
assassinate, butcher, cut down, dispatch, execute, fell, kill, kill off, massacre, mow (down), murder, slaughter, slay, take out, zap
- terrorists used a powerful pipe bomb to demolish the concrete wall around the compound
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