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Synonyms and Antonyms of destroying
- they practically destroyed the safe in order to get at the money inside
- their poor scores on the final exam destroyed any chance they might have had to pass the course
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
- wildfires destroyed thousands of acres in forests across the state
despoiling, foraying, harrying, looting, marauding, pillaging, plundering, sacking, stripping
annihilating, desolating, eradicating, expunging, extinguishing, extirpating, nuking, obliterating, rubbing out, shattering, smashing, totaling (or totalling), vaporizing, wasting, wiping out, wracking, wrecking
crushing, overpowering, overrunning, overthrowing, overwhelming
- regrettably, the veterinarian was forced to destroy the injured horse
carrying off, claiming, croaking [slang], dispatching, doing in, felling, killing, slaying, taking
bumping off, butchering, cutting down, finishing, getting, icing [slang], knocking off, murdering, neutralizing, offing [slang], putting away, rubbing out, scragging, snuffing, taking out, wasting, whacking [slang]
annihilating, blotting out, decimating, killing off, massacring, mowing, slaughtering, smiting
assassinating, executing, martyring, terminating
euthanizing (also euthanatizing), putting down
doing away with, doing for [chiefly British], making away with
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