(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".
Dismantle
Definition:
(v. t.) To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
(v. t.) To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship.
(v. t.) To disable; to render useless.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's this alliance and this record that postliberalism is trying to dismantle.
(2) The administration is also attacked for endangering America with its proposals to dismantle the prison at Guantánamo Bay.
(3) This review concentrates on an aspect of developmental cell death that has tended to be neglected, the manner in which the cells are dismantled.
(4) Decades of steady, albeit slow, progress on equality is being dismantled, as cuts to women's jobs and the benefits and services they rely on, turn back time on women's equality."
(5) The Bernabéu blockade was dismantled, by necessity, in favour of an approach far closer the sacred Real tradition.
(6) If the Coalition keeps going down the current path, its most enduring achievement will be the dismantlement of the equity-based federal funding settlement achieved under Whitlam and the dawn of a new era of evidence-less policy making.
(7) In April Egypt's interior minister, General Habib al-Adly, was described in US cables as being behind the dismantling of a Hezbollah cell in Sinai as well as "steps to disrupt the flow of Iranian-supplied arms from Sudan through Egypt to Gaza".
(8) The Anglican communion was given substance only by the British empire and next week’s meeting will be one of the final moments in the dismantling of the empire, or of the further process of forgetting that it ever mattered.
(9) When the old BBC governors – a system of governance that essentially dated back to 1922 – was dismantled in 2006 the outcry that there might be something quickly nicknamed Ofbeeb was deafening.
(10) Ms Le Pen’s party is intent on dismantling the EU , on setting up protectionist barriers, stigmatising Muslims and upending traditional western alliances.
(11) This would blow their chance to dismantle the signature policy achievement of the Obama presidency, leaving them facing the wrath of constituents and potential trouble at the ballot box.
(12) After weeks of unwashed silence he's finally dismantled his crisis-beard and returned his woollen catastrophe-hat to the BBC's Break In Case Of Homelessness box.
(13) We previously have shown that in BFA-treated rat pancreatic lobules, there is no detectable relocation of Golgi proteins to the ER and, although Golgi cisternae are rapidly dismantled, clusters of small smooth vesicles consisting of both bona fide Golgi remnants and associated vesicular carriers persist even with prolonged BFA exposure.
(14) Dismantling the reigning champions would normally serve as a statement of intent at Chelsea, though this was all too easy.
(15) The Times quoted an anonymous official familiar with the group saying its report “says we can’t dismantle these programs, but we need to change the way almost all of them operate”.
(16) The Lib Dem rebels want Clegg to go further and support dismantling the NHS's internal market through which different parts of the system commission and provide services.
(17) That does not mean disregarding or dismantling the UN guiding principles.
(18) 9.11pm BST A commander of the Free Syrian Army, a key US ally among the opposition, has echoed and magnified Idris' stated opposition to the Russian proposal for dismantling the regime's chemical weapons.
(19) Staff succeeded despite some seemingly impossible contradictions: John Cardinal O'Connor of the Archdiocese of New York, who has been opposed to the life-styles of most of the people who would use the unit (gays and IV abusers) urged the creation of the unit; St. Clare's had been bankrupt and virtually dismantled just a few years earlier; and the hospital did not have the financial resources, facilities, or AIDS patient caseload of the larger, well-known New York medical institutions.
(20) Charlie Kronick, senior energy adviser for Greenpeace, said the changes in tax relating to the dismantling of platforms meant rich oil companies were being subsidised by the under-pressure taxpayer.