demolish

Betekenis (Engels)

1. To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
2. To defeat, refute, discredit, or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
3. To devour; to eat up

Sinonieme

destroy

ruin

tear down

wreck

pull down

dismantle

smash

annihilate

raze

break

disassemble

crush

knock down

quash

take apart

pulverize

take down

break down

overthrow

devastate

shatter

destruct

break apart

dash

💨

ravage

damage

spoil

take to pieces

defeat

undo

break up

kill

🔪🩸👤

degrade

pulverise

fracture

exterminate

remove

mortify

erase

tear

bring down

hack

disrupt

breakdown

pull to pieces

humiliate

dissolve

drop

abase

slaughter

beat

lay waste

rase

draw a line

efface

enervate

enfeeble

eradicate

excavate

exhaust

extinguish

fence

flatten

go

go through

grub

humble

impair

implode

knock

lessen

let down

level

liquidate

look down

lose

lower

mar

mishandle

murder

overcome

overturn

pass through

quiet

quiten

reduce

rip

roll out

run down

scatter

scupper

shiver

shoot

shoot dead

shrink

slay

soothe

split

squelch

still

streak

strip

surmount

tackle

take off

throw

make desolate

tranquilize

tumble

unbuild

unloose

unmake

untie

use up

vanquish

weaken

wind

win over

wipe

write down

atomise

be ruined

be shattered

break into pieces

cry down

force open

let fall

make a mess of

make a stroke

make sour

make ugly

split open

make change

chaw up

crack

be exploded

make bad

make rotten

make addled

abolish

abridge

appease

assuage

atomize

bang up

batter

blast

blight

blow up

bobble

bollix

bollocks

break out

burst

bust

butcher

calm

capsize

chop

claw

clear away

collapse

consume

couch

🛋️

cover

crash

cut off

cut up

debase

decompose

decrease

deform

demean

deprave

depress

destruction

die

💀

dig

dig up

diminish

disband

discourage

discredit

disfigure

dishearten

dismiss

disperse

do away with

down

downsize

draw

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dəˈmɒl.ɪʃ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Attested since the 16th century; from Middle French demoliss-, the stem of some conjugated forms of the verb demolir (“to destroy”, “to tear down”), from Latin dēmōlior (“I tear down”). Displaced native Old English tōweorpan (literally “to throw apart”).

Sinne

So there was no pressure to demolish old buildings to put new ones at their place .