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demolition

Demolition is the act of knocking something down or totally destroying it. It's what construction crews do with sledgehammers and wrecking balls.

Not for the faint of heart, demolition usually involves explosives, bulldozers and lots of dust and debris. The act of demolishing something could be seen as a good stress reliever though, if plowing through drywall or mowing over shrubbery is your kind of thing. Or perhaps you could join "a demolition crew," hired to send the wrecking ball though buildings big and small.

DEFINITIONS OF: demolition

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n the act of demolishing

Type of:
destruction, devastation
the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists

n an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something

Synonyms:
destruction, wipeout
Types:
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annihilation, disintegration
total destruction
eradication, obliteration
the complete destruction of every trace of something
depredation, ravage
(usually plural) a destructive action
razing, wrecking
the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled
ruin, ruination
an event that results in destruction
rack, wrack
the destruction or collapse of something
extermination, extinction
complete annihilation
desolation, devastation
an event that results in total destruction
shipwreck
an irretrievable loss
Type of:
conclusion, ending, finish
event whose occurrence ends something
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