What does demolish mean?
Definitions for demolish
dɪˈmɒl ɪʃde·mol·ish
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Princeton's WordNet
demolish, pulverize, pulveriseverb
destroy completely
"the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"; "pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand"
crush, smash, demolishverb
humiliate or depress completely
"She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
demolish, destroyverb
defeat soundly
"The home team demolished the visitors"
Wiktionary
demolishverb
To destroy; to destruct
They demolished the old house and put up four townhouses.
demolishverb
To utterly defeat
Etymology: Attested since the 16th Century ; from demoliss-, the stem of some conjugated forms of the verb demolir, from demolior.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To DEMOLISHverb
Etymology: demolir, French; demolior, Latin.
I expected the fabrick of my book would long since have been demolished, and laid even with the ground. John Tillotson, Pref.
Red lightning play’d along the firmament,
And their demolish’d works to pieces rent. John Dryden, Ovid.
Wikipedia
demolish
Demolition (also known as razing, cartage, and wrecking) is the science and engineering in safely and efficiently tearing down of buildings and other artificial structures. Demolition contrasts with deconstruction, which involves taking a building apart while carefully preserving valuable elements for reuse purposes. For small buildings, such as houses, that are only two or three stories high, demolition is a rather simple process. The building is pulled down either manually or mechanically using large hydraulic equipment: elevated work platforms, cranes, excavators or bulldozers. Larger buildings may require the use of a wrecking ball, a heavy weight on a cable that is swung by a crane into the side of the buildings. Wrecking balls are especially effective against masonry, but are less easily controlled and often less efficient than other methods. Newer methods may use rotational hydraulic shears and silenced rock-breakers attached to excavators to cut or break through wood, steel, and concrete. The use of shears is especially common when flame cutting would be dangerous. The tallest planned demolition of a building was the 52-storey 270 Park Avenue in New York City, which was built in 1960 and torn down in 2019–2021 to be replaced by 270 Park Avenue.
ChatGPT
demolish
To demolish means to completely destroy or tear down a structure, building, or object. It may also refer to disproving or debunking a theory or argument. It is an act of causing significant damage or obliteration.
Webster Dictionary
Demolishverb
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
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Demolish
de-mol′ish, v.t. to destroy, lay in ruins, to ruin.—n. Demoli′tion, act of pulling down: ruin. [Fr. démolir—L. demolīri, to throw down—de, down, and molīri, to build—moles, a heap.]
British National Corpus
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'demolish' in Verbs Frequency: #1094
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of demolish in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of demolish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of demolish in a Sentence
Chris Christie has the best organizational staff in the state. They helped Steve King win against former Iowa first lady Christie Vilsack in 2012, they helped Gov. Branstad demolish his Democratic opponent in 2014, and so that team is now working for Chris Christie, and they are the most polished and most insightful campaign staffers that I know.
If you say the airport will be closed in six months, why demolish homes that have been there for five years? we're convinced there is another reason that people cannot say.
We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.
Demolish a skyscraper, but never destroy trust. The latter is harder to build.
Since right from the moment we announced, radical Democrats launched a disgraceful campaign to resist, obstruct, delay, demolish and destroy, right from the beginning, brett Kavanaugh is a man of great character and intellect.
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- събарям, разрушавамBulgarian
- bouratCzech
- niederreißen, abreißenGerman
- demolerSpanish
- lammutamaEstonian
- hajottaa, tuhotaFinnish
- démolirFrench
- dì-làraichScottish Gaelic
- הרסHebrew
- bont, [[le]][[dönt]]Hungarian
- hancur leburIndonesian
- demolireItalian
- ڕوخاندنKurdish
- dēmōliorLatin
- tukitukiMāori
- slopenDutch
- demolirPortuguese
- dărâmaRomanian
- разру́шить, сноси́ть, разруша́ть, снести́Russian
- dërmoj, prishAlbanian
- yikmakTurkish
- phá hủyVietnamese
- 拆除Chinese
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