demolish
di mo lish
- v destroy completely
the wrecking ball demolished the building
demolish your enemies - v humiliate or depress completely
- v defeat soundly
The home team demolished the visitors
- Sachs wants to demolish the notion that economic progress and environmental protection are incompatible.
- Some students at Florida Technological University held a trial to condemn a Chevrolet for poisoning the air; they tried to demolish it with a sledgehammer, but the car resisted .
- It helps that some of his most unpopular moves, like his unilateral decision to demolish a small lakefont airport in 2003 under the cover of night, seem nearly forgotten.