demolish
verb- demolish something
to pull or knock down a building; to destroy something 拆毁，拆除（建筑物） The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。 The old slums are being demolished to make way for a new housing project. 原有的贫民区正在拆除，腾出地方来建新的住房工程。 The car had skidded across the road and demolished part of the wall. 汽车打滑冲过马路，把部分墙撞塌了。 Tornadoes demolished trailers and blew roofs off houses. 龙卷风摧毁了一些活动房屋，并卷走了一些住宅的屋顶。
- demolish something
to show that an idea or theory is completely wrong 推翻，驳倒（观点或理论） A recent book has demolished this theory. 最近出版的一本书推翻了这种理论。 He has successfully demolished the opposition's arguments. 他成功地驳倒了反对派的论点。
- demolish somebody/something
to defeat somebody easily and completely 轻易而彻底地打败 - demolish something (British English, informal)
to eat something very quickly 狼吞虎咽地吃；贪婪地吃
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French démoliss-, lengthened stem of démolir, from Latin demoliri, from de- (expressing reversal) + moliri ‘construct’ (from moles ‘mass’).