Demolished
[di'mɔliʃt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Demolish
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Examples
- 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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