demolished
- adjective
- /dɪˈmɑːlɪʃt/
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demolido
- The old factory was completely demolished to make way for new apartments.
Right now, the place looks as demolished as it did a few weeks ago when I filmed that section, if not even more, which is super exciting.
- Right now, the place looks as demolished as it did a few weeks ago when I filmed that section, if not even more, which is super exciting.
- After all that years and years and decades of erased memory, demolished portraits, written textbooks, we know our lesson well enough.
- Yeah, we'll grow off a, a demolished base at a lower rate and we will not solve the problem of persistent unemployment.
Examples
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The city council decided to have the abandoned school demolished due to safety concerns.
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Right now, the place looks as demolished as it did a few weeks ago when I filmed that section, if not even more, which is super exciting.
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Yeah, we'll grow off a, a demolished base at a lower rate and we will not solve the problem of persistent unemployment.
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We're driving by some of the towns that have been demolished, the people forced to move to make way for the construction of neon.
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Today, much of the base is demolished in what's left locally overgrown.
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After all that years and years and decades of erased memory, demolished portraits, written textbooks, we know our lesson well enough.
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After the earthquake, many buildings were left demolished and in ruins.
Synonyms
Destroyed completely so nothing is left standing
Completely destroyed so nothing is left
Very badly damaged and no longer usable, often after a war or storm
Taken apart so it no longer works as a whole
Badly damaged after an accident or disaster
How Destroyed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Demolished comes from the Latin parts de- meaning 'down' and moles meaning 'mass' or 'large structure', so it gives the image of taking a building down. That's why demolished means 'torn down and destroyed'.