Demolish
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English
Verb
Demolish (third-person singular simple present demolishes, present participle demolishing, simple past and past participle demolished)
Adverbs for Demolish
utterly; ruinously; brutally; cruelly; savagely; thoughtlessly; bestially; blood-thirstily; uncompromisingly; fiercely.
Synonyms for Demolish
destroy, raze, overturn, level, ruin, wreck, dismantle, devastate.
Antonyms for Demolish
build, rebuild, improve, embellish, uphold, better, mend, produce, repair, restore, construct.
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, decimate, defeat, deny, destroy, devastate, diffuse, dilapidate, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dismiss, dismount, disperse, dispose of, disprove, disrupt, end, finish, fission, floor, fragment, grind, knock down, level, make mincemeat of, mince, nonplus, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, parry, pick to pieces, pull down, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, put to silence, quash, raze, rebut, reduce to rubble, reduce to silence, refute, rend, ruin, scatter, settle, shatter, shiver, shut up, silence, smash, smash all opposition, smash up, splinter, split, squash, squelch, squish, subvert, sunder, suppress, take apart, take down, tear apart, tear down, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, terminate, topple, total, unbuild, undermine, undo, unmake, upset, wrack, wrack up, wreck
Etymology
Attested since the 16th Century CE; from Middle French demoliss-, from démolir (“to destroy”, “to tear down”), from Latin demoliri (“to tear down”).
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References
- “Demolish” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
