To wreck, destroy, or devastate; to spoil or ruin by demolition, etc. Obsolete.

transitive. To cause (a building, wall, or other object) to fall to the ground; to knock down; to demolish. Also with down.

transitive. To overthrow, demolish (a building).

transitive. To pull down or undo (that which has been built); to demolish, raze to the ground.

transitive. To turn (something) upside down, invert (esp. in order to examine what is beneath); also in figurative contexts. Formerly also: †to…

transitive. To knock down, demolish, or topple (a building or other structure). Also figurative: to overthrow or destroy (something).

transitive. Chiefly Scottish in later use. To knock, strike, or beat down (a person or thing); to pull down or demolish (a building, structure…

transitive. To break (anything) so that its parts fall to the ground; to demolish, destroy, level with the ground. Also of things figurative.

transitive. To raze (a building, town, etc.) to the ground; to destroy completely. Also intransitive. Obsolete.

transitive. To overturn, overthrow. Obsolete.

transitive. To pull down, demolish (esp. a building); to take to pieces, to dismantle. Also: to fell (a tree).

transitive. To cause (someone or something) to collapse to the ground; spec. to knock (a person) down with a blow from the fists, a weapon, etc…

to make (a building,etc.) plain (with the earth) and variants: to make level with the ground, to raze to the earth. Obsolete.

To clear away by destruction or demolition. Obsolete.

transitive. To demolish, destroy; to smash, shatter. Obsolete.

to burst down: to break down violently.

transitive. To demolish, destroy, lay in ruins (a building, structure, etc.). Also figurative and in figurative contexts.

transitive. With down: to pull down or demolish (a building). Now rare (chiefly archaic and historical in later use).

To throw down and destroy (a structure); to overthrow, demolish, reduce to ruins. Also figurative.

To cause or bring about the ruin or destruction of (a structure, etc.) as by violence or misuse; to reduce to a ruinous condition in this way; to…

To destroy, demolish, lay waste. Obsolete.

To demolish, smash. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To tear down, demolish, or level (a building, town, etc.). Formerly occasionally with †up. In later use esp. in to raze to the ground.

To raze, level with the ground, lay low. Also: to erase, obliterate.

To batter or break down by heavy blows, to demolish, knock down (cf. 17).

transitive. To reduce (a building, town, etc.) to ruins. Also in figurative contexts. Also occasionally intransitive. Cf. ruin, v. 1b. Obsolete.

transitive. To pull or knock down (a building or other structure); to reduce to rubble or ruins; (more generally) to break violently into pieces; to…

transitive. To make (a surface, etc.) even or smooth; to level; †to spread out evenly or smoothly (obsolete). Also: †to make (buildings, etc.) level…

to shovel down: to destroy by shovelling away. Obsolete.

transitive. To level with the ground; to raze (raze, v. 6a). Obsolete.

transitive. To defeat or overthrow (a kingdom, power, etc.) completely. Obsolete.

transitive. To pull or tear down. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To deprive of, to free from, a wall or walls; to demolish (a wall).

transitive. To blow about, disarray, dishevel. rare. †to bluster down: to blow down with violence (obsolete).

transitive. To erase; to raze. Obsolete.

To bring to the level of the ground; to lay low, lay ‘even with the ground’, to raze. Also to level toor with the ground, in the dust.

transitive. To demolish, sweep away.

transitive. To pull down, destroy, demolish (a building or structure).

to make smooth work of, to level with the ground, to demolish. Obsolete. rare.

To level with the ground; to raze (a fortification, etc.). Obsolete exc. Historical (common 1640–80).

To disconnect the parts of (a structure that is ‘knocked together’: see to knock together 3 at phrasal verbs) by blows; to take to pieces. Cf. knock…

transitive. To crush, squash, demolish.

transitive. To cause to collapse, break down, fall in, or contract.

transitive. To turn (something) from its position on to one side, or from one side to the other, or upside down; to invert, reverse; to knock over…

transitive. Caribbean. To spoil, damage, or destroy by violence. Also: to cause trouble for (a person), esp. by careless talk. With up.

transitive. To reduce to rubble.

transitive. To beat or thrash severely; to subject to severe or brutal criticism; to demolish (literal and figurative).