(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".
Raze
Definition:
(n.) A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.
(v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
(v. t.) To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(2) MSF said the village of Lekongole has been razed to the ground.
(3) Helicopter crews have reported that entire villages have been razed there.
(4) His village was later razed and he felt too traumatised to return, he said.
(5) As a newly appointed prime minister in 1999, before becoming president on New Year's Day 2000, he began with a war in Chechnya , brutally suppressing an armed insurrection against Moscow's rule in the north Caucasus and razing the provincial capital, Grozny.
(6) The provisional structures that have been built in the area, including shops, cafes, churches and mosques, will all be razed as part of efforts to clear regions of the camp next to a motorway leading to the port, where there have been clashes with police.
(7) What is known is that a number of villages, including Likuangole, were razed to the ground.
(8) The massacre at Sharpeville , the first trial of Nelson Mandela , the razing of the black township of Sophiatown , signalled a regime prepared to shoot, jail or exile its opponents – and as Nakasa said, to bore the rest to death.
(9) When Katniss stands in the rubble of her district razed to the ground, it could be parts of Syria, Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan.
(10) The last one – a magnitude 8.1 in 1934 – razed around a quarter of Kathmandu to the ground and killed 17,000 people.
(11) Up to 15 people are thought to have been killed and more than 160 injured after a massive explosion and fire tore through a fertiliser plant and razed dozens of homes in a small Texas town on Wednesday night.
(12) Turn Britain's regions into subsidiaries of London, raze its business and political elites, and you have hardly any counterbalance to the might of the City.
(13) Moses wanted to extend Fifth Avenue through the square, ostensibly to ease congestion in Greenwich Village's dense maze of streets, but also to reward developers building on 10 blocks he'd razed to the south.
(14) Author deals with the possiblity of determination of various razes.
(15) But it is the first such modern museum in Poland , devoted to the 63-day insurrection in August and September 1944 that left 200,000 dead and incurred a terrible revenge when the Nazis methodically razed Warsaw.
(16) The result has been to raze the platform of the governing socialist party to a charred mess.
(17) Andy Warhol's first Factory location was razed in the late 1960s.
(18) But I don’t think this gets to the heart of why the razing of the temple rightly matters so much to us, and why such concerns can be as powerful as the ones we have for individual lives.
(19) First is that it goes the way of Badia East, razed for high-rises, or Bar Beach, site of a massive land reclamation project that is turning nine square kilometres of Atlantic Ocean into what developers are touting as “the Manhattan of west Africa”, a residential and commercial mini-city called Eko Atlantic .
(20) Britain can now boast its place as the world’s leading internet economy, but if no action is taken, our success stories could be razed to the ground.