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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act or process of wrecking or destroying, especially destruction by explosives.
  2. n. Explosives, especially when designed or used as weapons.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying, as a structure; hence, destruction or ruin in general: as, the demolition of a house or of military works; the demolition of a theory.
  2. n. In French law, abatement; annulment: as, an action in demolition of a servitude or a nuisance.

Wiktionary

  1. n. the action of demolishing or destroying, in particular of buildings or other structures

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the act of demolishing
  2. n. an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something

Etymologies

  1. Latin dēmōlītiō "a tearing down". (Wiktionary)
  2. French démolition, from Latin dēmōlītiō, dēmōlītiōn-, from dēmōlīrī, to demolish; see demolish. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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