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Synonyms and Antonyms of pulling down
- a powerful storm pulled down the old fishing shack, which had been immortalized in countless paintings
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
- an ugly billboard that was eventually pulled down
demolishing, leveling (or levelling), razing, tearing down, unbuilding
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
- he's pulling down six figures at that job
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