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1. Destroy completely
   "the wrecking ball demolished the building";
   - pulverize, pulverise [Brit]
    
2. Ruin or destroy
   "his book demolishes an old myth"; "demolished my reputation"; "the professor demolished the student's argument"
    
3. Eat up completely, as with great appetite
   "The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them";
   - devour, down [informal], consume, go through
    
4. Defeat soundly and humiliatingly
   "The home team demolished the visitors";
   - destroy, spiflicate [Brit, informal], spifflicate [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: demolishing, demolishes, demolished

Type of: defeat, destroy, destruct, eat up, finish, get the better of, overcome, polish off [informal], spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], uncreate [literary]

Encyclopedia: Demolish