demolish

Definitions


[dɪˈmɒlɪʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- pull or knock down (a building)
(e.g: the house was demolished to make way for the shopping centre)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century: from French démoliss-, lengthened stem of démolir, from Latin demoliri, from de- (expressing reversal) + moliri ‘construct’ (from moles ‘mass’)




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