demolishableadj.
/dᵻˈmɒlᵻʃəbl/, U.S. /dəˈmɑləʃəb(ə)l/ Able to be demolished (in various senses of the verb).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > demolishing > demolished or ruined > that can be demolished
underminable1622
demolishable1648
1648 R. Weldon Doctr. Script. 134 Solmon's Throne demolishable, as he was King of the Jewes; not demolishable in the Typified Gentils.
1728 C. Place That Space is Necessary Being 67 A struggling with Time, as it were, and tho' still holding out..yet demolishable.
1796 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 209 That a scheme so big with advantage..should be demolishable by one monosyllable from a Bookseller's Mouth!
1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 138 Only a glass house, frail, hollow, contemptible, demolishable.
1886 Ladies' Treasury 1 Feb. 63/1 The abundance of tarts demolishable at a sitting.
1957 Economist 5 Oct. 36/3 But if Dr Hahn is demolishable, he leaves some fairly savage tooth-marks on his demolishers.
2007 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 30 Sept. 76 The 498-square-metre block with demolishable cottage was bought in 2006.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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