wrecking ball
Swinging steel destroyer
A wrecking ball is a heavy steel sphere swung from a crane to demolish buildings.
The ball's mass and momentum crush masonry and concrete on impact.
Figuratively, a wrecking ball is anything or anyone that destroys indiscriminately: He came through the department like a wrecking ball.
Lifter or wader
- pendulumSuspended swinging weight
- cableHeavy-duty woven line
- swingSuspended recreational seat
- impactForceful contact or consequence
excavator · bulldozer · jackhammer · sledgehammer · teardown · razing · dismantle · heavy-duty
Break violently apart
- crashSudden violent impact
- shatterFragment violently, suddenly
- crumbleFragment gradually
- collapseSudden structural failure
flatten · pulverize · ruin · devastation · annihilate · obliterate · decimate · raze
Product of mass, velocity
- kineticRelating to motion
- impactForceful contact or consequence
- swingSuspended recreational seat
- massiveExtremely large and heavy
powerful · pendulum · energy · velocity · trajectory · arc · weight · tonnage
- music videoVisual companion to songs
- hit singleCommercially successful song
- chart-topperSong at position one
- balladNarrative poem or song
heartbreak · vulnerable · emotional · anthem · iconic · reinvention · performance · viral
One who overturns norms
- upheavalViolent disturbance of order
- catalystAgent enabling change
- gamechangerTransformative development
- bulldozeDemolish using heavy equipment
steamroll · shake-up · turmoil · chaos · destructive · reckless · uncontrollable · volatile
crane
Lifter or wader
impact · excavator · bulldozer · jackhammer · sledgehammer · teardown · razing · dismantle · heavy-duty · construction
smash
Break violently apart
collapse · flatten · pulverize · ruin · devastation · annihilate · obliterate · decimate · raze · disintegrate
momentum
Product of mass, velocity
massive · powerful · pendulum · energy · velocity · trajectory · arc · weight · tonnage · gravity
Miley Cyrus
- music videoVisual companion to songs
- hit singleCommercially successful song
- chart-topperSong at position one
ballad · heartbreak · vulnerable · emotional · anthem · iconic · reinvention · performance · viral · 2013
disruptor
One who overturns norms
- upheavalViolent disturbance of order
- catalystAgent enabling change
- gamechangerTransformative development
bulldoze · steamroll · shake-up · turmoil · chaos · destructive · reckless · uncontrollable · volatile · loose cannon
- round thingssphere, globe, circle, orb, spheres
- demolitiondemolish, raze, bulldoze, controlled demolition, knock down
- construction equipmentbackhoe, bulldozer, excavator, crane, forklift
- construction soundsdrilling, hammering, sawing, jackhammer, pile driver
- destructiondestruction, destroying, demolishing, devastation, ruination
- destructive forcesearthquake, tornado, hurricane, tsunami, volcano
wrecking ballconstruction
Process of building something
building · building up · tower crane · erection · assembly
wrecking ballrestoration
Returning something to condition
preservation · conservation · renovation · rehabilitation · fixing
wrecking ballhealing touch
Restorative physical contact
builder · creator · mender · unifier · stabilizer
ball, wreck, balls, wrecked, wreckage, wrecking, ballroom, shipwreck, balled