Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]

Narrower term/s

• blasting[+]
  • mud-capping
• breaking[+]
  • shear failure
• crushing
• demolition (process)
• defacement
• mutilation
• dismemberment
• deforestation
• deurbanization
• deconstruction (building process) [NP]
• ritual destruction (process)

Anotations

Scope note:

Process of ruining, demolishing, pulling to pieces, reducing to fragments, undoing, wasting, rendering useless, putting an end to a material object, structure, or other thing. May also refer to the ruining of an immaterial thing.