abbattere — meaning in English
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English meaning
- cull verb To select or pick something out from a larger group.
- demolish verb To tear down or destroy a building or structure, usually deliberately.
- destroy verb To damage something so severely that it no longer exists or can't be repaired.
- dismay noun A strong feeling of sudden worry, disappointment, or discouragement.
- fell verb To cut something down, especially a tree, or to knock someone or something to the ground.
- raze verb To tear a building, town, or structure down completely, leaving nothing standing.
- topple verb To fall over, or to cause something to fall over, especially from being top-heavy or unstable.
Senses
abbattere is used for these senses in English:
- cull To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
- demolish To devour; to eat up
- disestablish To deprive (an established church, military squadron, operations base, etc.) of its official status.
- fell (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
- knock down (transitive) To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.
- pull down (transitive) To demolish or destroy (a building etc.).
- put down (euphemistic) To euthanize (an animal).
- raze To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
cull — full definition
- verb To select or pick something out from a larger group.
- verb To reduce the number of animals in a population by killing some of them in a controlled way.
- noun The organized killing of selected animals to control numbers.
demolish — full definition
- verb To tear down or destroy a building or structure, usually deliberately.
- verb To thoroughly defeat, disprove, or destroy something such as an argument, theory, or opponent.