demolish
Significat (anglès)
- To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
- To defeat, refute, discredit, or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
- To devour; to eat up
Sinònims
break apart
take to pieces
rase
quiten
shoot dead
make desolate
be ruined
be shattered
break into pieces
force open
let fall
make a mess of
make a stroke
make sour
make ugly
split open
make change
chaw up
be exploded
make bad
make rotten
make addled
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/dəˈmɒl.ɪʃ/
Etimologia (anglès)
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”).
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