1. Destroy or completely remove a building or structure
   "They demolished the old factory";
   - level, raze, rase [archaic], dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down, flatten, knock down
    
2. Severely damage or destroy
   "artillery demolishd the town"; "The hurricane demolished everything in its path";
   - pulverize, pulverise [Brit]
    
3. Thoroughly disprove or discredit
   "the professor demolished the student's argument"; "his book demolishes an old myth"; "demolished my reputation"
    
4. [informal] Defeat soundly and humiliatingly
   "The home team demolishd the visitors";
   - destroy, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], pulverize [Brit, informal], pulverise [Brit, informal], annihilate [informal]
    
5. [Brit, informal] Eat up completely, as with great appetite
   "The teenagers demolishd four pizzas between them";
   - devour, down [informal], consume, go through

Derived forms: demolished, demolishes, demolishing

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