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Verb: demolish  di'mólish
  1. Destroy completely
    "the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"
    - pulverize, pulverise [Brit]
     
  2. Humiliate or depress completely
    - crush, smash
     
  3. Defeat soundly
    "The home team demolished the visitors"
    - destroy, spiflicate, spifflicate

Derived forms: demolishing, demolishes, demolished

See also: demolishing, demolition

Type of: abase, chagrin, defeat, destroy, destruct, get the better of, humble, humiliate, mortify, overcome, spifflicate, spiflicate

Encyclopedia: Demolish