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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One who carries out demolition.

   "Eventually seven days' efforts by professional demolitionists succeeded in reducing the building to debris."

Synonyms

All synonyms

demolisherdemolisher

Example

More examples

"If I were a bad demolitionist, I wouldn't be sitting here discussing it with you now, would I?"

Etymology

From demolition + -ist.

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