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DEMOLISHING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Complete destruction of a building

Synonyms:

demolishing; leveling; razing; tearing down

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("demolishing" is a kind of...):

destruction; devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)

Derivation:

demolish (destroy completely)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb demolish

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