pulling down (Meaning)
pulling down
being or appearing below a selected item (such as an icon) in a window overlaying the original view on a computer display, to bring to a lower level, appearing on a computer screen below a selected item, to hunt down, demolish, destroy, to depress in health, strength, or spirits, to draw or earn (wages or salary)
Synonyms & Antonyms of pulling down
Synonyms:
- sweeping (away)
- winning (against)
- blasting
- creaming
- extinguishing
- dismantling
- ravaging
- blowing up
- decimating
- razing
- totaling
- totalling
- breaking
- taking down
- pulverizing
- wearing (away)
- triumphing (over)
- eroding
- crippling
- wasting
- removing
- washing out
- vaporizing
- damaging
- killing
- prevailing (over)
- defeating
- annihilating
- crushing
- wracking
- rubbing out
- marring
Antonyms:
Synonyms:
- scouring
- snuffing (out)
- dynamiting
- dispatching
- thrashing
- executing
- harming
- clobbering
- disassembling
- skunking
- licking
- desolating
- trimming
- disfiguring
- injuring
- expunging
- plundering
- blotting out
- vitiating
- beating
- gutting
- walloping
- vandalizing
- sacking
- murdering
- nuking
- mangling
- whipping
- havocking
- defacing
- slaughtering
- routing
- trampling
- impairing
- conquering
- drubbing
- rooting (out)
- subduing
- undoing
- taking out
- cutting down
- scotching
- surmounting
- deteriorating
- disintegrating
- trouncing
- liquidating
- exterminating
- extirpating
- looting
- mutilating
- effacing
- spoiling
- dissolving
- wiping out
- overbearing
- pillaging
- slaying
- obliterating
- stamping (out)
- killing off
- eradicating
- mastering
- assassinating
- besting
- mowing (down)
- overmatching
Antonyms:
pulling down Sentence Examples
- The mechanic was pulling down the old engine to replace it with a new one.
- The climber was pulling himself down the steep cliff face with ropes.
- The soldiers were pulling down the enemy's fortifications.
- The construction workers were pulling down the dilapidated building.
- The angry crowd was pulling down the statue of the former dictator.
- The child was pulling down the curtains to block out the sunlight.
- The teacher was pulling down the map on the wall to show the students.
- The artist was pulling down the canvas from the easel to inspect his work.
- The hiker was pulling down branches to clear a path through the overgrown forest.
- The dog was pulling down the leash, eager to chase a squirrel.
FAQs About the word pulling down
being or appearing below a selected item (such as an icon) in a window overlaying the original view on a computer display, to bring to a lower level, appearing
demolishing, overcoming, doing in,destroying, devastating, smashing, shattering, ruining, tearing down, wrecking
raising, constructing,setting up, building, creating, erecting, putting up, shaping, rearing, framing
The mechanic was pulling down the old engine to replace it with a new one.
The climber was pulling himself down the steep cliff face with ropes.
The soldiers were pulling down the enemy's fortifications.
The construction workers were pulling down the dilapidated building.
