DEMOLISHED Synonyms: 201 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in destroyed

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verb

past tense of demolish

as in razed

to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to pieces developers demolished the old warehouse to make room for the new shopping mall

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as in ruined

to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of most of the buildings in the town had been demolished in the bombing raid

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to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive terrorists used a powerful pipe bomb to demolish the concrete wall around the compound

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Clare is now living with Wilcox; her home was demolished in the crash. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026 The Santa Maria Addolorata Church in West Town is being demolished to make way for six new homes. — Marissa Perlman, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026 The decaying Haddon Hall was demolished in the 1980s and replaced with an apartment block. — Eleni N. Gage, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026 The building’s owner previously told The Star the building would not be demolished and that it could be redeveloped. — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026 However, last week, the tide turned as the Green Bay Packers demolished the Bears, winning 31-7. — Ryan Canfield Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026 The island is the former home of a Renault factory, which was active for most of the 20th century and demolished in 2005. — News Desk, Artforum, 14 Oct. 2026 For one thing, Baron Haussmann had demolished swaths of the neighborhood in the mid-eighteen-hundreds to create the Place de la République. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Soon, around a dozen others joined him, sleeping on and off for a month until the beachside tent camp was fully demolished when Spanish police removed a few thousand migrants. — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026

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Sitting on the rim of his consciousness was always cataclysm, the muted whisper of a ruined world.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

Definition of ruined

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Both the rocket and the camera were destroyed after crashing into the Earth at a speed of about 340 miles per hour.

— Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Cities outside Paris have been hit hard by the unrest, including Limoges where a fire nearly destroyed the 19th-century city hall.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026

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On Wednesday night, northern and central parts of the state saw hail the size of golf balls that pummeled people’s roofs, shattered windows and dented cars, along with damaging wind gusts.

— Wufei Yu, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Hail pummeled people's roofs, shattered windows and dented cars.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of shattered

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But with a last throw of the dice, Tino Martinez smashed a two-run homer to level the contest, sending the game to extra innings and the World Series into its first November action.

— Don Riddell, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
Shattered glass littered sidewalks after rioters smashed and looted thousands of shops, torched cars and buildings, and attacked police, who fired tear gas and water cannons.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 26 Oct. 2026

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The McCoys’ attorney said the house will need to be razed and completely rebuilt.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026
Designed to last over a century, the building is a rejection of Japan’s disposable architecture, in which structures are razed — and all vegetation on lots ripped out — after a few decades of use.

— Tim Hornyak, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of razed

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Some were devastated and expressed hope a new company could rescue the venture so life at sea can continue.

— Sopheng Cheang, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
But Trump’s termination of electric-vehicle tax credits, for both consumers and manufacturers, has devastated the plant.

— Dan Kaufman, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2026

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