| 单词 | break something down |
| 释义 | 1 (phrasal verb) These rules tell us how a sentence is broken down into phrases. Synonyms divide up split cut up subdivide separate out 2 (phrasal verb) I was unable to break the door down. Synonyms demolish The building is being demolished to make way for a motorway. knock down destroy The building was completely destroyed. pull down tear down smash in kick down smash down 3 (phrasal verb) She was able to break down barriers between the two groups. Synonyms remove Most of her fears have been removed. destroy They could destroy the enemy in days rather than weeks. get rid of knock down eradicate battling to eradicate illnesses such as malaria and tetanus do away with obliterate I would like to obliterate the memory of what just occurred. put paid to Additional synonymsin the sense of destroy Definition to ruin The building was completely destroyed. Synonyms ruin, smash, crush, waste, devastate, break down, wreck, shatter, gut, wipe out, dispatch, dismantle, demolish, trash (slang), total (slang), ravage, slay (archaic, literary), eradicate, torpedo, extinguish, desolate, annihilate, put paid to, raze, blow to bits, extirpate (archaic), blow sky-high in the sense of destroy Definition to put an end to They could destroy the enemy in days rather than weeks. Synonyms annihilate, wipe out, obliterate, erase, eradicate, extinguish, liquidate, root out, exterminate, nullify, extirpate (archaic), wipe from the face of the earth in the sense of eradicate Definition to destroy or get rid of completely battling to eradicate illnesses such as malaria and tetanus Synonyms wipe out, eliminate, remove, destroy, get rid of, abolish, erase, excise, extinguish, stamp out, obliterate, uproot, weed out, annihilate, put paid to, root out, efface, exterminate, expunge (formal), extirpate, wipe from the face of the earth Nearby words of |
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