Usually means: Destroy or tear down completely.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word demolish:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. demolish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. demolish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. demolish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. demolish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. demolish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Demolish, demolish: Wordnik
  7. demolish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. demolish: Wiktionary
  9. demolish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. demolish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. demolish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Demolish, demolish: Dictionary.com
  13. demolish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. demolish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Demolish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Demolish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. demolish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. demolish: Rhymezone
  19. demolish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. demolish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. demolish: Free Dictionary
  22. demolish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. demolish: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. demolish: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. demolish: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. demolish: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Demolish: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. demolish: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See demolished as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
verb:  (figuratively) To defeat, refute, discredit, or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
verb:  To devour; to eat up

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