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Synonyms and Antonyms of demolishing
- developers demolished the old warehouse to make room for the new shopping mall
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
- most of the buildings in the town had been demolished in the bombing raid
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
eroding, scouring, sweeping (away), washing out, wearing (away)
dilapidating, disassembling, dismantling, gutting, taking down, unbuilding, undoing, unmaking
blotting out, effacing, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extirpating, liquidating, obliterating, removing, rooting (out), snuffing (out), stamping (out), wiping out
despoiling, havocking, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravaging, sacking, trampling, trashing, vandalizing
assassinating, butchering, cutting down, dispatching, executing, felling, killing, killing off, massacring, mowing (down), murdering, slaughtering, slaying, taking out, zapping
doctoring, fixing, mending, patching, reconditioning, repairing, revamping
assembling, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, framing, making, manufacturing, molding, producing, shaping
bringing about, constituting, establishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizing
conserving, preserving, protecting, saving
rebuilding, reconstructing, remodeling, renovating, restoring
- terrorists used a powerful pipe bomb to demolish the concrete wall around the compound
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