demolish

Meaning

Verb

To destroy.
To defeat or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).

Origin

Attested since the 16th century; from Middle French demoliss-, the stem of some conjugated forms of the verb demolir, from Latin dēmōlior.

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