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Demolishes

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destroyverb(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
battersverbTo hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
destroyingverb(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
destroysverb(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
devastatesverbTo ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
palmyranounAn ancient city, an oasis in the Syrian Desert, in present-day central Syria, recorded historically from around 2000 BCE, subsequently subject to various empires and destroyed in 273 CE and again in 1400, when it was reduced to a village.
ravageverb(transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
razesverb(transitive) To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
ruinverbTo destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
spoilsnounThat which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage, booty.
throwsverb(transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
underminesverb(figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
trashesverb(US) To discard.
bulldozesverbTo destroy with a bulldozer.
topplesverb(transitive) To push or throw over.
obliteratesverb(transitive) To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
shattersverb(transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
ignoresverbTo deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
dismantlesverb(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
rebutsverbTo deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.

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