creamed

verb

Definition of creamednext
past tense of cream
1
as in destroyed
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of the head-on collision creamed the brand-new car in an instant

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2
as in whipped
to defeat by a large margin the novice player was creamed in her first tennis tournament

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for creamed
  1. destroyed
  2. whipped
  3. demolished
  4. bombed
  5. ruined
  6. flattened
  7. wrecked
  8. buried
Verb
  • The Franklin fire is burning within much of the footprint of 2018’s devastating Woolsey fire, which destroyed more than 1,600 structures and burned about 97,000 acres in Malibu, the Santa Monica Mountains and surrounding communities of Thousand Oaks, Oak Park and Agoura Hills.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Fire officials say that at least seven structures were destroyed.
    Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of destroyed
Verb
  • The Franklin Fire ignited Monday night after days of extremely dangerous fire conditions when Santa Ana winds whipped across the region.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Before turning back, many of them whipped out their phones to snap a photo of the divers.
    Cedar Attanasio and Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of whipped
Verb
  • One home with a pool was nearly demolished; another was little more than a chimney and a pile of smoldering rubble.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
  • After the fatal accident, the state ordered the Orlando Free Fall ride closed and it has since been demolished.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of demolished
Verb
  • The Syrian civil war, up to last week, was the tedious winnowing process in which the Assad government bombed, killed, and terrorized Syrians into either fleeing the country or submitting to him.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The memoir is also getting review-bombed on sites like Goodreads with one-star ratings before anyone has read a page.
    Timothy Bella, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of bombed
Verb
  • They were all punished harshly—lives ruined.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Johnny sued Amber in 2019 for defamation, claiming that the op-ed article ruined his career and took away his acting opportunities, as well as his long-standing role in Pirates of the Caribbean.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of ruined
Verb
  • Passing power is readily available and the ten-speed is amenable to being flattened when trying to hit a closing gap in traffic.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • One airstrike flattened a residential building in the urban Bureij refugee camp Sunday afternoon, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the nearby city of Deir al-Balah, where the casualties were taken.
    WAFAA SHURAFA AND SAMY MAGDY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of flattened
Verb
  • Notre Dame, located by the River Seine in Paris, was wrecked by the blaze on April 15, 2019.
    Nicholas Rice, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The cathedral by the River Seine in Paris, was wrecked by the blaze on April, 15, 2019.
    Simon Perry, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of wrecked
Verb
  • Advertisement The bodies are buried with their heads to the west in three north-south rows, but nearly all of their gravestones have sunk below the surface.
    Travis Loller, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The women called rescue services to say they were buried by debris for seven hours after the attack late Tuesday in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine’s Emergency Services said, as deadly Russian strikes on civilian areas continue in the almost three-year war.
    Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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