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DEMOLISHED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does demolished mean?
• DEMOLISHED (adjective)
The adjective DEMOLISHED has 1 sense:
1. torn down and broken up
Familiarity information: DEMOLISHED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Torn down and broken up
Synonyms:
demolished; dismantled; razed
Similar:
destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)
Context examples
The doctor, with the pick-axe, demolished one of them, and then we all got aboard the other and set out to go round by sea for North Inlet.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A finding referring to a medical device that has been demolished.
(Destroyed Medical Device, NCI Thesaurus)
Is it not, by its noble cares and sublime results, the one best calculated to fill the void left by uptorn affections and demolished hopes?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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