To ~ a building or statue means to deliberately destroy it.
They’d pulled the registry office down which then left an open space...
A small crowd attempted to ~ a statue.
= demolish
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)
To ~ a building or statue means to deliberately destroy it.
They’d pulled the registry office down which then left an open space...
A small crowd attempted to ~ a statue.
= demolish
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012