Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to demolish
Participle: demolished
Gerund: demolishing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | demolish |
| you | demolish |
| he;she;it | demolishes |
| we | demolish |
| you | demolish |
| they | demolish |
Perfect
| I | have demolished |
| you | have demolished |
| he;she;it | has demolished |
| we | have demolished |
| you | have demolished |
| they | have demolished |
Past
| I | demolished |
| you | demolished |
| he;she;it | demolished |
| we | demolished |
| you | demolished |
| they | demolished |
Pluperfect
| I | had demolished |
| you | had demolished |
| he;she;it | had demolished |
| we | had demolished |
| you | had demolished |
| they | had demolished |
Future
| I | will demolish |
| you | will demolish |
| he;she;it | will demolish |
| we | will demolish |
| you | will demolish |
| they | will demolish |
Future Perfect
| I | will have demolished |
| you | will have demolished |
| he;she;it | will have demolished |
| we | will have demolished |
| you | will have demolished |
| they | will have demolished |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | demolish |
| you | demolish |
| he;she;it | demolish |
| we | demolish |
| you | demolish |
| they | demolish |
Perfect
| I | have demolished |
| you | have demolished |
| he;she;it | have demolished |
| we | have demolished |
| you | have demolished |
| they | have demolished |
Imperfect
| I | demolished |
| you | demolished |
| he;she;it | demolished |
| we | demolished |
| you | demolished |
| they | demolished |
Pluperfect
| I | had demolished |
| you | had demolished |
| he;she;it | had demolished |
| we | had demolished |
| you | had demolished |
| they | had demolished |
Conditional
Present
| I | would demolish |
| you | would demolish |
| he;she;it | would demolish |
| we | would demolish |
| you | would demolish |
| they | would demolish |
Perfect
| I | would have demolished |
| you | would have demolished |
| he;she;it | would have demolished |
| we | would have demolished |
| you | would have demolished |
| they | would have demolished |
Imperative
| you | demolish |
| we | Let's demolish |
| you | demolish |
Verbs conjugated like 'demolish'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'demolish'
depolish,
deminish,
demonise,
repolish,
abolish,
admonish,
complish,
dammish,
debosh,
defish,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To destroy; to destruct
- destroy
- to put to death; to extinguish life.
- annihilate, bag, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bury, cack, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, lay waste to, make a way with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out of one's misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, kill, torpedo, waste, wipe out, wreck
- raze
- overthrow, smash, destroy, wreck, sack, devastate, scrap
Antonyms
- to construct
- destroy, knock down, ruin, take apart, tear down, build, wreck
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1570, from M.Fr.
demoliss-, stem of
demolir "to destroy, tear down" (1383), from L.
demoliri "tear down," from
de- "down" +
moliri "build, construct," from
moles (gen.
molis) "massive structure."
Demolition is from 1549;
demolition derby is 1956, Amer.Eng., defined by OED as "a contest in which old cars are battered into one another, the last one running being declared the winner."
2. Attested since the 16th century; from Middle French demoliss-, the stem of some conjugated forms of the verb demolir (“to destroy”, “to tear down”), from Latin dēmōlior (“to tear down”). Displaced native Old English tōweorpan (literally “to throw apart”).
Verbs referencing "demolish"
Spanish
demoler, Cebuano demolis.
Sample Sentences
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They demolished the old mill and put up four townhouses.
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The station did not have a long life, as it was demolished between 1884 and 1888 to make room for a new and larger station which forms part of the present Liverpool Exchange Station. [1957 August 26, “Notes and News: Tithebarn Street Station, Liverpool”, in Railway Magazine, page 590:]
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The force of the explosion demolished one pair of piers and two spans of the bridge crashed down into the river on top of the barges. [1961 January, “Talking of Trains: The Severn Bridge disaster”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:]
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At Hawick, nothing remains of the station, and the viaduct over the River Teviot is one of a number of bridges that were demolished or removed following closure. [2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 53:]
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The Captain folded his brow into a look of intense perplexity. 'You seem exceedingly spry for a man who demolished an entire bottle of brandy and better part of an ounce of shag in a single evening.'
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'And very nice too,' said the tramp. 'Now as to breakfast?' [1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope, page 68:]
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Andrew Johnson scored a hat-trick as Fulham demolished London rivals Queens Park Rangers to win their Premier League fixture of the season. [2011 October 2, Kevin Core, “Fulham 6 - 0 QPR”, in BBC Sport:]
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The table opposite me is occupied by a young couple with a table full of alcohol and snacks. In a role reversal, he is drinking Smirnoff Ice while she steadily demolishes a six-pack of lager! [2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 74:]
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“Thanks, Raj.” Frank was too hungry to worry about Raj’s gob gloop on the bar, and happily demolished it in seconds. [2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:]