They will demolish the building and replace it with a park.
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Demolish
Synonyms for "demolish" (180 found)
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rebutreduce to rubblereduce to silencerefuterendroot outroutrub outruinrun downscattersettleshattershivershootshredshut upsilencesmashsmash all oppositionsmash upsplintersplitspoilsquashsquelchsquishstiflesubvertsundersuppresssweeptackletake aparttake downtear aparttear to piecestear to shredstear to tattersterminatetoppletotalunbuildundermineundounmakeuprootupsetwrackwrack upwreck
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2 entriesderived
8 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
73 translations across 46 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- dërmoj verb (to destroy)
- prish verb (to destroy)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- καθαιρέω verb (to destroy)
- κατασκάπτω verb (to destroy)
Arabic
1 entries- هَدَمَ verb (to destroy)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- dağıtmaq verb (to destroy)
- sökmək verb (to destroy)
- uçurmaq verb (to destroy)
Bulgarian
2 entries- разрушавам verb (to destroy)
- събарям verb (to destroy)
Catalan
1 entries- enderrocar verb (to destroy)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- ڕوخاندن verb (to destroy)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 拆除 verb (to destroy)
Czech
2 entries- bourat verb (to destroy)
- demolovat verb (to destroy)
Danish
3 entries- demolere verb (to destroy)
- rive ned verb (to destroy)
- sløjfe verb (to destroy)
Dutch
1 entries- slopen verb (to destroy)
Esperanto
1 entries- malkonstrui verb (to destroy)
Estonian
1 entries- lammutama verb (to destroy)
Finnish
2 entries- hajottaa verb (to destroy)
- tuhota verb (to destroy)
French
1 entries- démolir verb (to destroy)
Georgian
1 entries- დანგრევა verb (to destroy)
German
2 entries- abreißen verb (to destroy)
- niederreißen verb (to destroy)
Greek
2 entries- γκρεμίζω verb (to destroy)
- κατεδαφίζω verb (to destroy)
Hebrew
1 entries- הרס verb (to destroy)
Higaonon
1 entries- ginuba verb (to destroy)
Hungarian
2 entries- bont verb (to destroy)
- ledönt verb (to destroy)
Indonesian
1 entries- hancur lebur verb (to destroy)
Italian
1 entries- demolire verb (to destroy)
Japanese
2 entries- 取り壊す verb (to destroy)
- 崩す verb (to destroy)
Khmer
1 entries- រុះរើ verb (to destroy)
Kumyk
1 entries- дагъытмакъ verb (to destroy)
Latin
3 entries- disturbō verb (to destroy)
- dēmōlior verb (to destroy)
- dēruō verb (to destroy)
Mizo
1 entries- ṭhiat verb (to destroy)
Māori
1 entries- tukituki verb (to destroy)
Norman
1 entries- dêmoli verb (to destroy)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- rive verb (to destroy)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- rive verb (to destroy)
Old English
2 entries- brēatan verb (to destroy)
- tōweorpan verb (to destroy)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- بوزمق verb (to destroy)
- ییقمق verb (to destroy)
Polish
4 entries- burzyć verb (to destroy)
- niszczyć verb (to destroy)
- zburzyć verb (to destroy)
- zdemolować verb (to destroy)
Portuguese
1 entries- demolir verb (to destroy)
Romanian
1 entries- dărâma verb (to destroy)
Russian
4 entries- разру́шить verb (to destroy)
- разруша́ть verb (to destroy)
- снести́ verb (to destroy)
- сноси́ть verb (to destroy)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dì-làraich verb (to destroy)
Slovak
1 entries- búrať verb (to destroy)
Spanish
1 entries- demoler verb (to destroy)
Swedish
1 entries- riva verb (to destroy)
Tagalog
1 entries- gibain verb (to destroy)
Turkish
1 entries- yıkmak verb (to destroy)
Ukrainian
4 entries- знести́ verb (to destroy)
- зно́сити verb (to destroy)
- зруйнува́ти verb (to destroy)
- розва́лювати verb (to destroy)
Vietnamese
1 entries- phá hủy verb (to destroy)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
It took three weeks to demolish the old house.
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They're going to demolish that old building.
Source: tatoeba (7732732)
We have to demolish the whole building because of the foundation and to build everything anew.
Source: tatoeba (8118139)
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