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Someone who proves buildings are just opinions held together by gravity.
means A person or thing that tears a structure down completely, reducing it to rubble.
from Traces back to Latin demoliri — 'to throw down' — built from the prefix de- ('down') plus moliri ('to build, construct, or set in motion'), itself related to moles, meaning 'mass' or 'massive structure.' So buried inside 'demolish' is its own opposite: the very word for building, moliri, wearing a 'down' in front of it like a wrecking ball. English picked up 'demolish' around the 16th century via French, and 'demolisher' simply names the agent who does it.
- etymology
- from latin demoliri, to throw down
- irony
- takes longer to plan than the building took
- modern tool
- excavator with hydraulic shears, not dynamite
- other use
- debate slang for destroying an argument