单词 | demolished |
释义 | demolishedadj. That has been demolished; esp. (of a building or other structure) that has been pulled or knocked down. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > demolishing > demolished or ruined razed?1518 flat1560 prostrate1560 overthrown1579 uplaid1582 demolished1609 fight-rac't?1611 collapsed1620 slighted1656 flatted1681 wrecked1818 fallen1821 torn-down1933 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 100 The demolished rubbish of Bables Tower. 1623 J. Donne Encænia 34 That demolished Temple. 1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 41 Beneath the Lumber of demolisht Worlds. 1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. 347 On the site of the demolished theatre. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xxviii. 321 ‘Certainly I shall come,’ replied he, rising to take his leave, and still holding the demolished roses in his hand. 1888 Ohio Educ. Monthly Aug. 352 The ruins of their demolished theories of the science of education. 1938 J. Marks Family of Barrett v. 84 As night came on the pillagers, water men, sailors, whores, gathered like buzzards for their work on land among the demolished houses and dead bodies. 1993 People's Weekly World (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 24 Apr. 11/1 Wrecked apartment buildings, demolished strip malls and uprooted palm trees line both sides of U.S. Route 1. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1609 |
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