Usually means: Destroys completely, often with force.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. demolishes: Merriam-Webster
  2. demolishes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. demolishes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Demolishes, demolishes: Wordnik
  5. demolishes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. demolishes: Wiktionary
  7. demolishes: Dictionary.com
  8. demolishes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. demolishes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. demolishes: Legal dictionary

(Note: See demolish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (demolish)

verb:  (literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
verb:  (figuratively) To defeat, refute, discredit, or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
verb:  To devour; to eat up
▸ Also see demolish


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