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demolish

verb

1 demolish

Destroy completely:
— The wrecking ball demolished the building.

synonyms: pulverise, pulverize.

Roget 479: confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat; ... show more

2 demolish

Ruin or destroy.

Dutch: slopen

3 demolish

Eat up completely, as with great appetite:
— The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them.

synonyms: consume, devour, down, go through.

Roget 162: be destroyed &c.; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, ... show more

4 demolish

Defeat soundly and humiliatingly:
— The home team demolished the visitors.

synonym: destroy.


Moby thesaurus: annihilate, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, atomize, break, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, burst, cleave, confound, confute, contradict, controvert, crack, crash, crunch, crush, cut to pieces ... show more.

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