demolish
verb (used with object)
to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
undemolished
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a word derived from
demolish.
Example Sentences
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He had risked his life to see if his car, which was parked on the plaza, was undemolished.
From Time Magazine Archive
The 9th Division had a similar experience on its left wing, where the undemolished defences of the Hohenzollern Redoubt became a veritable shambles.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
Because they stood by and suffered the peace to be made, the Bill of Commerce to pass, and Dunkirk to lie undemolished longer than we expected, without raising a rebellion.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift
From this the fire darted to the bridge, burning the wooden houses built upon it, and the water machines underneath, and likewise creeping up Thames Street, on that side which was yet undemolished.
From Royalty Restored by J. Fitzgerald (Joseph Fitzgerald) Molloy
Riot twofold is quelled; and little blood shed, if it be not insignificant blood from the nose: Vincennes stands undemolished, reparable; and the Hereditary Representative has not been stolen, nor the Queen smuggled into Prison.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
