DEMOLISH, verb transitive [Latin To build.] To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy, as a heap or structure; to separate any collected mass, or the connected parts of a thing; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a mound; to demolish a wall or fortification.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.