knock sth down
— phrasal verb with knock uk/nɒk/us/nɑːk/verb
B2 to destroy a building or part of a building:
There are plans to knock the library down and replace it with a hotel complex.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Destroying and demolishing
- annihilate
- apocalypse
- be sacrificed on the altar of sth idiom
- blast
- blast/blow sb/sth to kingdom come idiom
- fall in
- kill sth off
- kill the goose that lays the golden egg idiom
- knock
- knock sth out
- sacrifice
- sink
- smash
- stave sth in
- take sb/sth out
- tear 1
- tear sth apart
- tear sth down
- teardown
- wipe
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to show that what someone has said is not true :
She easily knocked down every argument he put up.