demolish

Meaning

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

Concepts

demolish

destroy

ruin

pull down

wreck

tear down

dismantle

smash

annihilate

raze

break

disassemble

crush

knock down

quash

take apart

take down

overthrow

break down

devastate

pulverize

shatter

destruct

dash

spoil

ravage

damage

break apart

defeat

kill

take to pieces

undo

break up

abase

bring down

degrade

drop

humiliate

mortify

pull to pieces

breakdown

beat

hack

slaughter

fracture

exterminate

remove

lay waste

pulverise

tear

rase

dissolve

disrupt

erase

abridge

couch

cry down

cut up

debase

decrease

demean

deprave

diminish

discredit

downsize

draw

draw a line

humble

lessen

let down

look down

lower

make a stroke

reduce

roll out

run down

shrink

streak

write down

appease

assuage

butcher

calm

chop

cover

cut off

depress

dig up

discourage

dishearten

down

enervate

enfeeble

excavate

exhaust

go through

grub

liquidate

overcome

pass through

quiet

quiten

shoot

shoot dead

slay

soothe

still

surmount

tackle

tranquilize

use up

vanquish

weaken

win over

be exploded

break into pieces

eradicate

deform

disfigure

impair

make a mess of

blow up

implode

clear away

destruction

strip

be ruined

be shattered

burst

die

split

collapse

crack

flatten

scupper

chaw up

unbuild

wipe

consume

make addled

make bad

make desolate

make rotten

make sour

make ugly

claw

rip

batter

crash

shiver

squelch

take off

split open

overturn

capsize

atomise

atomize

bang up

blast

bust

decompose

disband

dismiss

disperse

scatter

level

extinguish

make change

knock

tumble

break out

force open

throw

wind

let fall

lose

dig

abolish

blight

bobble

bollix

bollocks

do away with

efface

go

mar

mishandle

murder

unmake

fence

unloose

untie

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dəˈmɒl.ɪʃ/

Etymology

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”).

Sentences

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