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Synonyms & Antonyms of demolishing
(Entry 1 of 2)
as in destruction, ruin
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demolishing
verb
present participle of demolish
Synonyms & Antonyms of demolishing (Entry 2 of 2)
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
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- abolishing,
- annihilating,
- cracking up,
- crushing,
- dashing,
- decimating,
- destroying,
- devastating,
- devouring,
- dissolving,
- doing in,
- eradicating,
- extirpating,
- finishing,
- flattening,
- obliterating,
- overturning,
- pulverizing,
- ravaging,
- ruining,
- scourging,
- smashing,
- totaling
- (or totalling),
- unmaking,
- wasting,
- wiping out,
- wrecking
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2
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of
- most of the buildings in the town had been demolished in the bombing raid
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- beating,
- besting,
- clobbering,
- conquering,
- crushing,
- defeating,
- drubbing,
- licking,
- mastering,
- overbearing,
- overcoming,
- overmatching,
- prevailing (over),
- routing,
- scotching,
- skunking,
- subduing,
- surmounting,
- thrashing,
- trimming,
- triumphing (over),
- trouncing,
- walloping,
- whipping,
- winning (against)
- blasting,
- blowing up,
- breaking,
- crippling,
- damaging,
- defacing,
- deteriorating,
- disfiguring,
- disintegrating,
- dissolving,
- dynamiting,
- harming,
- impairing,
- injuring,
- mangling,
- marring,
- mutilating,
- spoiling,
- vitiating
- blotting out,
- effacing,
- eradicating,
- expunging,
- exterminating,
- extirpating,
- liquidating,
- obliterating,
- removing,
- rooting (out),
- snuffing (out),
- stamping (out),
- wiping out
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3
to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive
- terrorists used a powerful pipe bomb to demolish the concrete wall around the compound
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“Demolishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demolishing. Accessed 18 Jan. 2022.
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