Demolish

Definition: Demolish

Demolish

Verb

1. Destroy completely.

2. Humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation".

3. Defeat soundly: "The home team demolished the visitors".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "demolish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Note: Demolish \De*mol"ish\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Demolished; present participle verb or noun Demolishing.]. (references)

Synonyms: Demolish

Confutation

Verb: confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat; demolish, break; (destroy); overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate; silence; put to silence, reduce to silence; clinch an argument, clinch a question; give one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut up; have, have on the hip.

Destruction

Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.

Crosswords: Demolish

Books

• The Construction Zone: Devotions for Building a Faith the World Can't Demolish (reference)

• They won't demolish me! (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Construct and Demolish [EP] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The sappers, whose duty it is to demolish the barricade, must always precede the soldiers whose duty it is to scale it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Russia

On April 10, Keston reported that Taganrog authorities ordered the Muslim community to demolish its mosque. (references)

Moldova

On December 25, Transnistrian authorities threatened to demolish a house in which the Baptists had been meeting, although this threat had not been carried out by year's end. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Catholic Church reported that local authorities in Pecnik threatened to demolish a Catholic church that was being rebuilt because the work is being done without a building permit. (references)

Human Rights

Macedonia

The law allows authorities to demolish properties constructed without prior government permission. (references)

Turkmenistan

During the year, the Government continued to demolish large numbers of private homes in Ashgabat as part of the President's beautification program. (references)

Ghana

According to the company, it had permission from the Western Regional Security Council to demolish the village, and it also had a contract signed by the residents of Kyekywere. (references)

Political Economy

Turkmenistan

The Government continued to demolish large numbers of private homes; many displaced homeowners received little or no compensation for their loss. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

thyej (bend, break, break to pieces, cash, change, crack up, fold, fracture, hurt, mammock, maul, mill, refract, rupture, shatter, shiver, sliver, smash, snap, Spall, split, stamp, transgress, worst, wreck), shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), shemb (collapse, contuse, pull down, tear down), rrëzoj (blow, bring down, chop down, defeat, depolarise, depose, destroy, dethrone, disenthrone, dismount, disprove, down, drop, eradiate, fail, fell, floor, kill, knock out, overthrow, plough, plow, pull down, pull over, push down, push over, rase, raze, rebut, sink, spill, wreck), hedh poshtë (censure, confute, contradict, controvert, decline, detrude, disclaim, disprove, dispute, knock out, push aside, rebut, refute, reject, repudiate, sweep away, turn down, wave aside), ha (chamfer, consume, despatch, dispatch, eat, eat away, elide, erode, feed, ingest, shark). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هدم (blight, demolition, destroy, destruction, do away with, level, pluck, pull down, sap, smash, take apart, tear, tear down, total), ‏وضع حد (break up, end, make shift, stop), ‏إلتهم (bolt, consume, devour, eat, eat up, engorge, gobble, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingest, make a pig of oneself, munch, overeat, shovel, snap, stuff, swallow, swig, tuck, tuck in, wolf), ‏أتى على, ‏دك (bench, demolition, plaster, tamp, unbuild), ‏دمر (annihilate, blast, break down, desolate, destroy, devastate, flatten, immolate, overthrow, prey, pull down, pulverize, ravage, ruin, smash, subvert, unbuild, wrack, wreck), ‏دحض (break, confute, disclaim, disproof, disprove, falsification, falsify, negative, objection, rebut, rebuttal, refutation, refute, squash). (various references)

Bulgarian 

събарям (bowl over, break down, bring down, dismantle, fell, fling, fling down, grass, kick over, knock down, knock off, lay low, overthrow, prostrate, pull down, push down, push over, rase, raze, ride down, run down, subvert, tear down, throw down), срутвам (destroy, unbuild), сривам (pulverize), унищожавам (annihilate, consume, crush, destroy, devour, eat up, exterminate, extinguish, kill, make away with, neutralize, nullify, pulverize, rip out, ruin, scathe, scotch, smash, smash up, squelch, stamp, tread down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wipe up), излапвам (engorge, polish off, put away). (various references)

Chinese 

拆毁 (Demolished, Demolishing). (various references)

Czech

znièit (annihilate, blast, destroy, devastate, devour, do for, do in, eat up, expunge, infringe, Mar, overthrow, overturn, ruin, smite, spoil, take out, wreck), zlikvidovat (dispose of, mop up, smash), zbořit (batter, destroy, knock down), strhnout (break, break down, carry away, pull down, raze, strip, tear away, tear down, tear off), spořádat (rank, work), slupnout (gulp), rozdrtit (annihilate, crush, devastate, flatten, powder, vanquish, whack). (various references)

Dutch

afkammen (cry down, cut up, pull to pieces, run down, write down), afgeven op (cry down, cut up, pull to pieces, run down, write down), afbreken (break, break down, break off, cry down, cut, cut a connection, cut up, divide, pick, pluck, pull down, pull to pieces, run down, separate, share, stop, take down, tear off, write down). (various references)

Esperanto

diskreditigi (cry down, cut up, pull to pieces, run down, write down), malkonstrui (break down, pull down, take down). (various references)

Farsi 

ویران کردن (Desolate, Destroy, Devastate, Gaunt, Harry, Havoc, Knockout, Ravage, Raze, Rubble, Ruinate, Throw), خراب کردن (Amortize, Botch, Corrupt, Destroy, Deteriorate, Devastate, Dilapidate, Disfigure, Impair, Muck, Muddle, Ruin, Ruinate, Unbuild, Undo, Unmake, Vitiate, Wrack, Wreck). (various references)

Finnish

purkaa (discharge, dismantle, pull down, take apart, take out, take to pieces, unbox, undo, unload, unpack, unpick), hajottaa (disperse, dissolve, scatter, take to pieces, tear down). (various references)

French

démolir (destroy), abattre (defeat, depress, shoot dead). (various references)

Frisian

ôfbrekke (break, break down, break off, interrupt, pick, pluck, pull down, stop, take down, tear off). (various references)

German

zerstören (blast, blight, destroy, distroy, extinguish, gut, kill, quash, raze, ruin, sink, spoil, to demolish, to destroy, to destruct, to kill, vandalize, wreck). (various references)

Greek 

κρημνίζω (rase, raze, tear down), κατεδαφίζω (dismantle, pull down, rase, raze, tear down, wreck), συντρίβω (batter, beat, crash, crush, dash, grind down, knock the stuffing out of, lick, overwhelm, quash, shatter, shiver, smash, squelch, stun). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשבר (break, crush, shatter, smash, wreck), לפרוץ (breach, break, break forth, break through, burst, crack, erupt, pry open, spout, spread), לערות (decant, denude, empty, expose, lay bare, pour out, raze, spill, strip, uncover), ל�"רוס (bane, blight, destroy, havoc, pull down, ravage, ruin, shatter, tear down, wreck), ל� תץ (destroy, disrupt, pull down, smash). (various references)

Hungarian

lerombol (bulldoze, lay low, rase, raze, ruin, to break down, to demolish, to destroy, to knock down, to lay flat, to lay low, to pull down, to tear down, to vandalize), elpusztít (consume, destroy, devastate, devour, Harry, havoc, perish, slay, to blast, to canker, to consume, to desolate, to destroy, to devastate, to do away with, to harry, to kill off, to lay waste, to prang, to ravage, to scathe, to scorch, to waste). (various references)

Indonesian

membongkar (break in, burglar, disclose, dismantle, force open, open up, pry, unload, unpack), melumpuhkan (hamstring, kill, paralyze). (various references)

Italian

demolire (abate, break down, break up, disestablish, pull, pull apart, pull down, scrap, shake, shoot down, take, take down, tear down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

取り払う (to clear away, to demolish, to remove), 取り毀す (to demolish, to tear or pull down), 取り壊す (to demolish, to tear or pull down), 取り崩す (to demolish, to take away until nothing remains). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とりくずす (to demolish, to take away until nothing remains), とり�"わす (to demolish, to tear or pull down), とりはらう (to clear away, to demolish, to remove). (various references)

Korean 

폭파하십시�". (various references)

Manx

lhieggey (bowl over, cataract, chop down, dismount, downfall, drop, fall, fall down, fell, fire, hew, overbalance, overflow, pick off, pull down, run over, spill, strike, striking, throw, topple, tumble, weigh down). (various references)

Maya

hen (to demolish). (various references)

Norwegian

rive ned. (various references)

Papiamen

basha abou (break down, pull down, take down). (various references)

Pig Latin

emolishday.(various references)

Portuguese

destruir (blast, butcher, consume, defeat, depredate, destroy, devour, dilapidate, douse, eat, end, explode, extinguish, finish off, havoc, impair, kill, mine, obliterate, override, overwhelm, poison, puncture, quash, quench, rase, ravage, raze, reave, reive, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, subvert, tear down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wrack, wreck), desmantelar (dismantle, pull down, take apart, tear down), demolir (break down, destroy, dilapidate, level, pull down, pulverize, quash, rase, raze, unbuild, wrack, wreck), arruinar (blight, break, crack, decay, depredate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, fling, injure, mar, mine, puncture, ravage, reave, reive, ruin, spoil, undo, unmake, waste), aniquilar (annihilate, annul, destroy, exterminate, scupper, unmake, wipe out). (various references)

Romanian

demola (break down, destroy, knock down, pull down, raze, take down). (various references)

Russian 

разрушать (attack, break, broke, cast down, defeated, destroy, disestablish, erode, make havoc of, play havoc, play havoc among, play havoc with, play hell, play the devil, play the mischief, shatter, subvert, unbuild, wrack, wracked, wreck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

demolirati (trash), slupati (smash, wreck), rušiti (desolate, dilapidate, raze, tear down), razvaliti (raze), porušiti (destroy, level, pull down, rase, raze, subvert, tear down). (various references)

Spanish

derribar (batter down, blow down, break down, bring down, fell, floor, knock down, knock over, lay, lay out, level, overthrow, pull down, take down, throw, topple, upset), demoler (break down, knock down, pull down, snap out, take down, tear off). (various references)

Swedish

slopa (abolish, break down, dismantle, pull down, reject, take down), rasera (destroy, rase, raze), förstöra (bugger, butcher, crab, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, muff, perish, quash, rape, ruin, shatter, sink, spoil, undo, waste, wreck). (various references)

Turkish

yiyip bitirmek (devour, eat up, fret, guzzle, make inroad into, prey upon, Raven), yıkmak (batter down, blast, blow down, break down, confound, dash, destroy, do for, drag down, explode, extinguish, housebreak, knock down, knock over, level, overthrow, pull dawn, puncture, ravage, ruin, shatter, shoot down, split, subvert, take down, unbuild), tahrip etmek (batter down, blow up, destroy, devastate), imha etmek (annihilate, cut off, destroy, dispose of, exterminate, extirpate, throw down). (various references)

Turkmen 

яykmak (knock down), яumurmak, яumrulmak (destroy). (various references)

Ukrainian

спростовувати (confute, deny, disapprove, disprove, negate, negative, nill, overturn, rebut, refute, repulse), руйнувати (attack, baffle, blight, cast down, confound, destroy, devour, dilapidate, disappoint, explode, havoc, ruin, shake down, wrack, wreck), розбивати (batter, break, crack, defeat, destroy, outbreak, split, stave in), зносити (abide, blow away, knock down, sit down under, take down, tear down, throw down, unbuild, undergo, weather), знищувати (abolish, annihilate, annul, blast, consume, crush, delete, efface, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill off, neutralize, nullify, obliterate, outroot, overthrow, overturn, pull up, quell, root out, root up, rub out, scotch, sweep away, take off, torpedo, wear off, wither). (various references)

Welsh

chwalu (scatter, spread). (various references)

adnihilo, dele, deleam, deleamus, deleant, deleantur, deleas, deleat, deleatur, delebimus, delebis, delebit, delebitque, delebitur, delebo, delebor, delebunt, delebuntur, delendam, delendi, delendos, delens, deleo, delere, delerem, delerent, deleret, deleri, deleta, deletae, deleti, deletis, deleverit, deleverunt, delevi, delevimus, delevit, delevitque, demoliar, demolient, demolientes, demolientur, demolierunt, demolietur, demolire, demolirer, demoliri, demolita, demoliti, demolitum, demolitur, demolitus, demoliuntur, deponam, depone, deponebamus, deponendum, deponens, deponent, deponentes, deponere, deponerent, deponeretur, deponet, deponite, deposita, depositis, depositoque, depositos, depositum, depositumque, deposuerant, deposuerunt, deposuisti, deposuit, destruere, diruam, diruerunt, diruta, eruo, everto, exciderat, excideris, exciderit, exciderunt, excidisti, excidit, inruamus, inruat, inrue, inruebant, inruemus, inruens, inruente, inruentes, inruerant, inruerat, inruere, inruerent, inruerint, inruerit, inruerunt, inrueruntque, inruet, inruisti, inruit, inruitis, inruitque. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "demolish": demolished, demolisher, demolishers, demolishes, demolishing, demolishment, demolishments. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Demolish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: demoish, denolish, Desmoulins, Dumalise. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dishelm, meloids, midsole.

-2 letters: dholes, helios, hemoid, hoised, holies, holism, isohel, meloid, misled, models, modish, mohels, moiled, molies, moshed, oldies, oldish, seldom, shield, siloed, slimed, smiled, soiled.

-3 letters: deils, deism, delis, demos, dhole, dimes, diols, disme, doles, domes, eidos, heils, helio, helms, helos, hides, hoise, holds, holed, holes, holms, homed, homes, hosed, hosel.

+1 letter: halidomes.

+2 letters: demolished, demolisher, demolishes.

+3 letters: chrysomelid, delightsome, demolishers, demolishing.

+4 letters: accomplished, chrysomelids, demolishment, hemodialyses, hemodialysis, malnourished, thalidomides.

+5 letters: amphiploidies, demolishments, endotheliomas, hemodilutions, hemorrhoidals, holidaymakers, methodologies, methodologist.