demolishing

Verb

demolish (third-person singular simple present demolishes, present participle demolishing, simple past and past participle demolished)

1. (literally, transitive) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
   • They demolished the old mill and put up four townhouses.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To defeat, refute, discredit, or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
   • The Captain folded his brow into a look of intense perplexity. 'You seem exceedingly spry for a man who demolished an entire bottle of brandy and better part of an ounce of shag in a single evening.'
     'And very nice too,' said the tramp. 'Now as to breakfast?'1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope, page 68
3. (transitive) To devour; to eat up
   • “Thanks, Raj.” Frank was too hungry to worry about Raj’s gob gloop on the bar, and happily demolished it in seconds.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN