demolish
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The committee’s sponsor, Death Penalty Action, launched an online petition to “Abolish & Demolish the Death Penalty” which, as of Friday afternoon, has amassed 5,408 signatures of the 6,400 sought.
From Washington Times • Jan. 14, 2022
Demolish the Paris luxury industry, the Baroness d'Oberkirch concluded, and French international supremacy would wither overnight.
From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2011
Demolish unfavorable points with a strong gesture of negation, as by sweeping your arm horizontally.
From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.
Demolish that monster, Maladministration, Whose menaces fright the fair tower-crowned Maiden.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 25, 1891 by Various
Demolish, de-mol′ish, v.t. to destroy, lay in ruins, to ruin.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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