DEMOLITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does demolition mean? 

• DEMOLITION (noun)
  The noun DEMOLITION has 2 senses:

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

2. the act of demolishing

  Familiarity information: DEMOLITION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMOLITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

demolition; destruction; wipeout

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

conclusion; ending; finish (event whose occurrence ends something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "demolition"):

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)

Derivation:

demolish (destroy completely)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of demolishing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the demolition of the huge tower was quite a spectacle

Hypernyms ("demolition" 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 (defeat soundly and humiliatingly)

demolish (destroy completely)

 Context examples 

A complete device charged with explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics, initiating composition, or nuclear, biological, or chemical material for use in military operations, including demolitions.

(Munition, NCI Thesaurus)

The act of destroying; demolition or annihilation.

(Destruction, NCI Thesaurus)

Restriction is like a demolition where you take the building down. But you have to rebuild it. If you don’t do that, there’s no benefit. You are left with an empty lot, and what have you achieved?

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