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demolition

/dem-uh-lish-uhn, dee-muh-/US // ˌdɛm əˈlɪʃ ən, ˌdi mə- //UK // (ˌdɛməˈlɪʃən, ˌdiː-) //

拆除,拆卸,拆迁,爆破

Related Words

annihilation湮灭,歼灭,毁灭,消灭explosion爆炸,爆炸声,爆炸事件,爆发extermination灭绝,灭绝术,灭亡,灭绝罪wrecking捣毁,毁坏,捣乱,破坏leveling流平性,平坦化,均匀化,平整性razing夷平,夷为平地,夷灭,铲平bulldozing推土机,推土,推土機,推挤knocking down撞倒,击倒,撞倒了,打倒

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of demolishing.
    • : the state of being demolished; destruction.
    • : destruction or demolishment by explosives.
    • : demolitions, explosives, especially as used in war.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or working with explosives: A demolition squad attempted to blow up the bridge before the enemy captured it.
    • : of or relating to tearing down or demolishing: Demolition work had begun on the old building.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundestruction
Synonyms
annihilation湮灭,歼灭,毁灭,消灭explosion爆炸,爆炸声,爆炸事件,爆发extermination灭绝,灭绝术,灭亡,灭绝罪leveling流平性,平坦化,均匀化,平整性wrecking捣毁,毁坏,捣乱,破坏knocking down撞倒,击倒,撞倒了,打倒

Examples

  • Built in 1897, the onetime dance hall and meeting space closed its doors in 1970, sank into disrepair, and was earmarked for demolition.

  • The demolition will make way for a new development approved last year by the Arlington County Board.

  • The demolition will make way for new development approved last year by the Arlington County Board.

  • The demolition was handled—rather fittingly—by a woman-led team.

  • When the Evergreen team—with a demolition crew that was 35% female, a high rate for the industry—arrived at the site, they found a few lingering signs that this office belonged to a notable former inhabitant.

  • Their home probably will be devastated, too, but they received no demolition notice.

  • Ibrahim Hijazi walked me through his barren house, emptied ahead of the demolition.

  • How could anyone think that their dislike of the Bee Gees made anything about Disco Demolition Night acceptable?

  • Dahl went on to attain nationwide fame and his own syndicated broadcast as a result of Disco Demolition Night.

  • After 57 years of continuous operation, the theater closed, was sold to a private company, and scheduled for demolition.

  • In the reign of some of the English kings the demolition of such houses would not have been adjudged treason.

  • Verse alone could ease the girl of her ecstacy, and each recorded and triumphed in the demolition of yet another day.

  • The Sablonière Hotel, however, is now in course of demolition.

  • No doubt all this was clear to Brownie, and that was why he took such fiendish delight in his work of demolition.

  • He deprecated the demolition of Mont Orgueil, 'a stately fort of great capacity,' which had cost more than 20,000 marks.

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