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present participle of pull down
Synonyms & Antonyms of pulling down
1
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of
- a powerful storm pulled down the old fishing shack, which had been immortalized in countless paintings
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Words Related to pulling down
- 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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2
to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to pieces
- an ugly billboard that was eventually pulled down
Synonyms for pulling down
- demolishing,
- leveling
- (or levelling),
- razing,
- tearing down,
- unbuilding
Words Related to pulling down
- 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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3
to receive as return for effort
- he's pulling down six figures at that job
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