Word Meanings - DEMOLITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEMOLITION)

• Dilapidation
• Ruin
• decay
• disintegration
• downfall
• crumbling
• demolition
• dismantlement
• Havoc
• Desolation
• ruin
• waste
• wreck
• ravage
• destruction
• devastation
• Perdition
• Destruction
• loss

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEMOLITION)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Spare
• conserve
• preserve
• indemnify

Related words: (words related to DEMOLITION)

• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• WRECKING
  a. & n. from Wreck, v. Wrecking car , a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision. -- Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• DEMOLITIONIST
  A demolisher. Carlyle.
• RAVAGER
  One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.
• RAVAGE
  Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble
• SPARE
  1. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. "No cost would he spare." Chaucer. thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare. Milton. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. Prov.
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• DECAYER
  A causer of decay.
• DOWNFALLEN
  Fallen; ruined. Carew.
• WRECKFUL
  Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive. "By wreckful wind." Spenser.
• WASTEFUL
  1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• FLOURISHINGLY
  , adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• DOWNFALLING
  Falling down.
• INDEMNIFY
  1. To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure. The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out. Sir W. Temple. 2. To make restitution or compensation for, as for
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• FOREWASTE
  See GASCOIGNE
• DEPERDITION
  Loss; destruction. Sir T. Browne.
• TRANSPARENCE
  The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.
• BEWRECK
  To wreck.
• PREDECAY
  Premature decay.