Demolishing meaning

We set about demolishing the table-like counter and had just completed it when our light began to fail.

Not only does exposure to heat sufficient to coagulate protein matter destroy life, by demolishing Life con- the molecular structure upon which life depends; but ditioned all vital activity, all phenomena of nutritive growth, by tern' movement and reproduction are possible only be- perature.

These measures only increased Paul's unpopularity, so that when he died, on the 18th of August 1559, the Romans vented their hatred by demolishing his statue, liberating the prisoners of the Inquisition, and scattering its papers.

During the 1960s, government embarked on the disastrous policy of demolishing communities and rehousing them in soulless high rise blocks.