CREATING Antonyms

• complete destruction of a building

• the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery)

• the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning

• destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

• the act of breaking something into small pieces

• seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering

• an act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done)

• loosening the ties that fasten something

• the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled

• destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

• do away with

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• crushed by grief

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• reduce in population

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of

• destroy completely; damage irreparably

• defeat soundly and humiliatingly

• put (an animal) to death

• terminate, end, or take out

• get rid of something

• kill in large numbers

• dismiss from consideration or a contest

• eliminate from the body

• remove from a contest or race

• remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations

• kill in large numbers

• destroy completely, as if down to the roots

• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

• eliminate by paying off (debts)

• convert into cash

• settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off

• reduced to nothingness

• mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

• remove completely from recognition or memory

• do away with completely, without leaving a trace

• kill in large numbers

• extinguish by crushing

• put an end to; kill

• put out, as of fires, flames, or lights

• terminate, end, or take out

• kill in large numbers