单词 | demolishment |
释义 | demolishmentn. 1. = demolition n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > demolition subversiona1382 razinga1400 racing?a1450 beating down1530 rasing1552 demolishing1560 plucking1560 demolitiona1572 downpulling1581 demolishment1602 slighting1640 wreck1711 wrecking1775 wreckage1837 train-wrecking1872 unbuilding1879 demo1945 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > overthrow of a person, institution, belief, etc. fallOE confusionc1290 subversiona1325 overthrowingc1330 overturninga1398 downcasta1400 wrackc1400 downcastingc1425 eversionc1425 profligationc1475 demolitionc1550 overturec1555 wreck1577 overturnc1592 racking?1689 upsetting1827 subversal1843 demolishment1884 1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 51 Waste may bee committed in the decay or demolishment of an house. 1652 T. Wilkes To Parl. Common-wealth Eng. 4 The demolishment of all the Cathedrals. 1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. iii. i. 312 The Demolishment of fifty of their strongest Cities. 1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 522/2 The total demolishment of thrones, the levelling of all ranks, the abolition of all religions, and the partition of property, were the themes in which he revelled. 1884 Bookseller 6 Nov. 1190 b/2 The author has succeeded in the complete demolishment of Messrs. Darwin, Huxley and Co. 1916 Cosmopolitan June 131/1 Vice-President Wead, still panting from his demolishment of bony Bradley, but hale in his triumph. 1969 L. Carter Young Magicians (1971) 272 Will you join me in the demolishment of this haunch of meat? 2011 Legacy (Nexis) Jan. 127 No hint of your sickness should reach the health authorities, for that would certainly mean the demolishment of our home. 2. In plural. The remains of a demolished building; = demolition n. 2. Now rare. †in demolishments: in ruins (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > dilapidated or ruinous condition > that which is dilapidated or ruinous ruinosity1453 ruins1544 demolitions1608 demolishments1628 demolishings1632 rumble1866 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. c. sig. Cc2v If no man should repaire the breaches, how soone would all lye flatted in Demolishments? 1670 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. & Reflexions upon Psalms in Coll. Tracts (1727) 372 To repair those breaches and demolishments. 1743 S. A. Lavan tr. Edict Nantz in Compend. Hist. Reformation France IV. i. 241 The Ruins and Demolishments that have been made in Cities and Towns during the Troubles, may be rebuilt and repair'd with our Leave, by the Inhabitants. 1833 Sat. Mag. 2 Mar. 83/2 If none were to repair the breaches, how soon would all lie levelled in demolishments? 1938 W. Notestein Eng. Folk 295 Along some of the streets of Berkeley stood only ruins of old houses, demolishments of the Wars of the Roses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1602 |
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