demolish
Example Sentences
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These stocks hit the bricks at the end of last year, and this year they have been getting demolished.
From Barron's
Or that the public housing she championed would itself deteriorate so badly that, by 1990, the federal government would label much of it as “severely distressed”—and demolish it for having become a latter-day slum.
They demolished Slovakia on Friday and are now on the precipice of finally capturing the gold medal they’ve been chasing for nearly five decades.
They demolished plates of dried beef, hoecakes, pickled eggs, roast venison and fried parsnips.
The East Wing of the White House was demolished last autumn to make way for the ballroom.
From BBC
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