- demolished, dismantled, razed - torn down and broken up
Antonym: preserved (indirect, via destroyed)
- level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down - tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"
--1 is one way to destroy, destruct
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart - take apart into its constituent pieces
--2 is one way to destroy, destruct
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun dismantlement1, noun dismantling1
Somebody ----s something
- strip, dismantle - take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper"
--3 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something