Demolish
[dɪ'mɒlɪʃ] or [dɪ'mɑlɪʃ]
Definition
(verb.) defeat soundly; 'The home team demolished the visitors'.
(verb.) destroy completely; 'the wrecking ball demolished the building'; 'demolish your enemies'; 'pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand'.
Editor: Robert--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.
Checked by Kathy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Destroy, overthrow, raze, level, ruin, dash to pieces, break to pieces.
Typed by Jerry
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DESTROY]
Edited by Hamilton
Definition
v.t. to destroy lay in ruins to ruin.—n. Demoli′tion act of pulling down: ruin.
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Examples
- Indeed, even as they parleyed the Greeks set to work to demolish the end that linked them to the Scythians as quickly as possible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is it not, by its noble cares and sublime results, the one best calculated to fill the void left by uptorn affections and demolished hopes? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Or--mark my words--the Order of the Temple will be utterly demolished--and the Place thereof shall no more be known among the nations. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And ex--' But Twemlow, in his demolished state, cannot command the word, and trails off into '--actly so. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The warriors tore open the entrance and a couple of them, crawling in, soon demolished all the eggs with their short-swords. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Thus the sophistical fabric has been demolished, chiefly by appealing to the analogy of the arts. Plato. The Republic.
- Here he looks to find a tiny particle of the demolished larva, ofttimes not more than a speck of moisture. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It was then demolished by a mob and its inventor reviled, but it afterward became the pride of Lyons and the means of its renown and wealth in the weaving of silks of rich designs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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