Synonyms of the word

demolish

• v. To destroy; to destruct.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To utterly defeat (as in a theory, belief or opponent).

abase

• v. (transitive, archaic) To lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down.
• v. (transitive) To lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lower in value, in particular as altering the content of alloys in coins.

chagrin

• n. Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or…
• n. A type of leather or skin with a rough surface.
• v. (transitive) To bother or vex; to mortify.
• v. (intransitive) To be vexed or annoyed.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

defeat

• v. (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
• v. (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
• v. (transitive) To nullify.
• n. The act of defeating or being defeated.

destroy

• v. (transitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
• v. (intransitive) To cause destruction.
• v. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
• v. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
• v. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
• v. (colloquial, transitive) To defeat soundly.
• v. (computing, transitive) To remove data.

destruct

• v. (transitive) To intentionally cause the destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To self-destruct.

humble

• adj. not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
• adj. Thinking lowly of oneself; claiming little for oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
• v. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
• v. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of;…
• adj. hornless.

humiliate

• v. (transitive) To injure a person's dignity and self-respect.

mortify

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
• v. (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
• v. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
• v. (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
• v. (obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
• v. (Scotland, law, historical) To grant in mortmain.

overcome

• v. (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To win (a battle).
• v. (intransitive) To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
• v. (transitive, usually in passive) To overwhelm with emotion.
• v. To come or pass over; to spread over.
• v. To overflow; to surcharge.

pulverise

• v. (transitive) To render into dust or powder.
• v. (transitive) To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder.
• v. (transitive) To defeat soundly, thrash.
• v. (intransitive) To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust.

pulverize

• v. (American) Alternative spelling of pulverise.

smash

• n. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A traffic accident.
• n. (colloquial, entertainment) Something very successful.
• n. (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
• v. To break (something brittle) violently.
• v. (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
• v. To hit extremely hard.
• v. (figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success.
• v. (US) To deform through continuous pressure.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.