(v. t.) To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said he will pursue new measures, including demolishing the homes of instigators.
(2) Barriers protecting industry, manufacturing and agriculture were demolished.
(3) You know, it’s a Bolshevik kind of attitude: demolish everything,” she said.
(4) Their now demolished house stood in front of this strange feature.
(5) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.
(6) The Saturday I visited, a steady stream of supporters, including six teams from Tottenham, London, and returnees from the previous week, arrived to leaflet in the near-steady stream of rain – demolishing the stacked boxes of leaflets at the campaign HQ.
(7) Israel has said demolishing tunnels is the principal goal of its ground operation and it has released footage showing tunnels being demolished by excavators and air strikes.
(8) Conspiracy theories, many put forward by Mohamed Al Fayed, former Harrods owner and father of Dodi Fayed , Diana's companion at the time, who was also killed in the crash on 31 August 1997, were demolished in the course of the much-delayed inquest, held in the high court between October 2007 and April 2008.
(9) Charleston church shooting: 21-year-old suspect captured as 'holy city' mourns Read more The Emanuel church as a wooden structure was built between 1865 and 1872, and was demolished by an earthquake in 1886.
(10) In 2004, Marvin Heemeyer , a 52-year-old welder and the victim of expropriation, drove a bulletproof tank into town and demolished a dozen municipal buildings before shooting himself.
(11) The Indian unit of the company hit a hurdle earlier this year when local authorities said they would demolish the plant , claiming it was built on village council land and was "illegal".
(12) Halifax District Hospital's Medical Library, Daytona Beach, Florida was altered from two dingy rooms to a modern, well-equipped Medical Library twice its former size by its maintenance men in six months time, with the help of the librarian's sketches and an architect student from the junior college to draw the plans.A complete renovation was done, eighteen-inch walls between rooms being demolished, plumbing, ceiling, and windows removed.
(13) In his first major speech in the US, the chancellor will attempt to demolish claims that a further five years of austerity will restrict growth and hurt workers' living standards.
(14) The unrest led to 450 police officers being injured and 70 buildings being demolished .
(15) Reconstruction of anatomical continuity of the arterial supply avoiding unnecessary operative demolishment is feasible.
(16) The PCC fails to demolish that claim, quoting the paper's current editor, Colin Myler: "Our internal inquiries have found no evidence of involvement by News of the World staff other than Clive Goodman."
(17) This time, however, her home was not under threat from Khmer Rouge guerrillas, but was instead demolished by armed construction workers, hired by a land development corporation to carry out one of the capital's most ambitious new property developments.
(18) Chelsea have really exciting plans for that stadium – to demolish the whole thing and build a new one on the existing site,” Dyke said.
(19) "No one demolished their tombs because the government is so weak," said Youssef.
(20) Large parts of TV Centre will be demolished after it is vacated by the BBC to make way for a redevelopment that includes a cinema, health club, restaurants and cafes, as well as offices and about 1,000 new homes including an unclassified amount of "affordable housing".
Devastate
Definition:
(v. t.) To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
Example Sentences:
(1) It appears that irrespective of the elucidation of the nature of the putative aetiological factor (presumed to be viral) in MS, the arrest and reversal of T cell-related events within the CNS in this devastating condition represent feasible goals and should remain a major target for some time to come.
(2) Samaras said: A "Grexit", as it is called, would be devastating for Greece and detrimental to Europe.
(3) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(4) The Financial Services Authority is meant to be the City's watchdog but "devastating" internal documents reveal it has secretly co-ordinated high-level lobbying strategies with the industry it is supposed to police.
(5) The government acknowledged it had been overwhelmed by the devastation from the deadliest quake in Nepal in over 80 years.
(6) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.
(7) "When people don't feel they have a reason to stay out of trouble, the consequences for communities can be devastating – as we saw last August," said Darra Singh, chair of the panel.
(8) Newcastle United are “devastated” by their relegation from the Premier League, according to the club’s managing director Lee Charnley.
(9) In order to reduce the devasting effects of enteric diseases among children born to mothers in tropical countries of Africa and Asia, it is imperative that all health workers understand the cultural and social perceptions of their clients towards the disease in question.
(10) All the personality, dignity and humanity of a person are devastated by this torture.
(11) Age UK believes McDonald's human rights have been breached and that there could be "extremely adverse and devastating consequences for many thousands of older people if other councils take similar decisions to save money".
(12) And then, as the Guardian revealed at the weekend, there is the potentially devastating effect of the boundary changes, which can’t really be brought in before an early election but will radically tilt the field by 2020.
(13) He said: "[That] could be devastating for the renewables industry.
(14) To say that the loss of BB King is devastating to the blues community is an understatement.
(15) 'Devastated' Peter Greste calls on Egypt's president to pardon trio Read more “It’s ironic that the conviction was for tarnishing Egypt’s reputation when ... this [case] is what’s tarnished Egypt’s image,” Clooney told BBC News.
(16) The report, extracts of which were published by the investigative news website Exaro , is said to include “devastating detail” of the corporation’s “sheer scale of awareness” of the late star’s activities.
(17) Although anterior and posterior traumatic displacement of cervical vertebrae are commonly noted, and the devastating neurological deficits associated with these injuries have been amply defined, lateral displacement with fractures has been rarely recognized, and the clinical significance of this injury has been overlooked.
(18) Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Met commissioner, said a report revealing the undercover officers had spied on the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence was “devastating” for Scotland Yard and “one of the worst days that I have seen as a police officer”.
(19) The case for halting British arms sales to Saudi Arabia has been evident, not only on moral grounds, since civilians started dying in the conflict devastating Yemen.
(20) Devastating neurologic complications can be avoided or alleviated in a great proportion of patients undergoing radiation therapy for cerebral metastases and spinal cord compression.