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
He was shrewd as well as high-spirited; he was not covetous for the garden if the wasps' nest remained undemolished.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
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
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
The fallen ceiling had shattered some of the pews; the altar alone stood undemolished.
From The Sign of Flame by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
