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demolishingverbpresent participle of demolish to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to piecesdevelopers demolished the old warehouse to make room for the new shopping mall leveling(or levelling), pulling down, razing, tearing down, unbuilding blowing up, dynamitingabolishing, 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 building, constructing, erecting, putting up, raisingrebuilding, renewing, renovating, restoringcreating, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, making, manufacturing, shaping to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness ofmost of the buildings in the town had been demolished in the bombing raid annihilating, creaming, decimating, desolating, destroying, devastating, doing in, extinguishing, nuking, pulling down, pulverizing, razing, rubbing out, ruining, shattering, smashing, tearing down, totaling(or totalling), vaporizing, wasting, wracking, wrecking 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, vitiatingeroding, scouring, sweeping (away), washing out, wearing (away)dilapidating, disassembling, dismantling, gutting, taking down, unbuilding, undoing, unmakingblotting out, effacing, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extirpating, liquidating, obliterating, removing, rooting (out), snuffing (out), stamping (out), wiping outdespoiling, havocking, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravaging, sacking, trampling, trashing, vandalizingassassinating, butchering, cutting down, dispatching, executing, felling, killing, killing off, massacring, mowing (down), murdering, slaughtering, slaying, taking out, zapping building, constructing, erecting, putting up, raising, rearing, setting up doctoring, fixing, mending, patching, reconditioning, repairing, revampingcreating, inventingassembling, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, framing, making, manufacturing, molding, producing, shapingbringing about, constituting, establishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizingconserving, preserving, protecting, savingrebuilding, reconstructing, remodeling, renovating, restoring to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosiveterrorists used a powerful pipe bomb to demolish the concrete wall around the compound blasting, blowing, blowing up, bursting, exploding, popping, shattering, smashing dynamitingannihilating, decimating, destroyingruining, wreckingdetonating, dischargingfragmenting, splintering collapsing, imploding |