demolition

n

1. razing, tearing down, pulling down, taking down, bringing down, breaking down, throwing down, beating down; casting down, knocking down, flinging down, hurling down, precipitation; felling, leveling, prostration; cutting down, chopping down, hewing down.

2. devastation, desolation, laying waste, gutting, wipe-out; ravagement, havoc, holocaust, destruction, dilapidation, ruination, bringing to ruin, laying in ruins; wrecking, wreckage, knocking to pieces, dashing to pieces, smashing; dismantling, disassembly, taking apart.

3. pulverization, crushing, squelching, Sl. smushing, mashing; crashing, shattering, battering, breaking, breakup; fracturing, tearing apart, wrenching apart, cracking, splitting; mutilation, mangling, making mincemeat of; marring, damage, spoilage, mark, spotting, stain; disfigurement, scarring, defacement.

4. annihilation, discreation, extermination, extirpation, extinguishment, extinction; erasure, erasion, ef-facement, eradication, expunction, cancellation, obliteration; excision, cutting out, cutting off; blotting out, striking out, stamping out, crushing out, wiping out, rubbing out; killing, slaying, slaughter; murder, finishing off, Sl. zapping, sacrifice, mowing down.

5. purgation, getting rid of, leaving no vestige or trace of, liquidation, removal; termination, dissolution, bringing to an end, putting an end to, doing away with.

6. quashing, quelling, suppression, squelching, crushing, vanquishment, squashing; nipping, nipping in the bud, Inf. putting the kibosh on; overthrow, overturn, subversion, defeat, conquest.