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say it: di-MAH-lish
demolish is a verb meaning "destroy completely". It carries 4 recorded senses.
eat up completely, as with great appetite
“Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal”
“The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them”
defeat soundly and humiliatingly
“The home team demolished the visitors”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for demolish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.