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pulling downverbpresent participle of pull down to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness ofa powerful storm pulled down the old fishing shack, which had been immortalized in countless paintings annihilating, creaming, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, doing in, extinguishing, nuking, 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 destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to piecesan ugly billboard that was eventually pulled down demolishing, leveling(or levelling), 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 receive as return for efforthe's pulling down six figures at that job acquiring, attaining, bagging, bringing in, capturing, carrying, coming by, drawing, earning, gaining, garnering, getting, knocking down, landing, making, obtaining, procuring, realizing, reaping, securing, winning clearing, grossing, nettingaccomplishing, achieving, notching (up), scoringaccumulating, amassing, drawing, racking upcatching, picking upannexing, occupying, taking overreacquiring, reattaining, recapturing, regaining, remaking forfeiting, losing according, giving, granting, payinggiving up, handing over, parting (with), relinquishing, surrendering, yielding |