DEMOLISHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does demolishing mean? 

• DEMOLISHING (noun)
  The noun DEMOLISHING has 1 sense:

1. complete destruction of a building

  Familiarity information: DEMOLISHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMOLISHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Complete destruction of a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

demolishing; leveling; razing; tearing down

Hypernyms ("demolishing" is a kind of...):

destruction; devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)

Derivation:

demolish (destroy completely)

 Context examples 

Men were demolishing something with axes on the beach near the stockade—the poor jolly-boat, I afterwards discovered.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)