Elide: alternatives and connections

To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or ra…

To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.

Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to br…

Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up of the gove…

To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to p…

To break or fly off in small pieces.

The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.

Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the stat…

To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to over…

To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.

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of Demolish

To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence o…

To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint and edifi…

To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by neces…