5EAT especially British EnglishBrE informal to eat all of something very quickly 狼吞虎咽地吃
He demolished a second helping of pie.
他狼吞虎咽地吃掉了第二份馅饼。
Examples from the Corpus
demolish• Eventually, in 1997, the apartmentblock was demolished.• And there: the flat-Earth hypothesis is demolished.• In the end the matter was resolved amicably and Springtown was cleared of residents and demolished.• The half-hour show uses these to the fullest, setting up straw man after straw man for Daria to demolish.• I've seen Marian demolish a big box of chocolates in one sitting!• It would not be difficult to demolish a theory that was so obviously a load of rubbish.• These stones were removed when this monument was demolished and built in steps in the eastwing of the villa.• There was a time when the response "that's a value judgement" would have demolished any argument in the educationalfield.• His house and studio were demolished more than a century ago.• The decisiondemolishes part of the city's civil rights legislation.• Miami demolishedTexas 46-3.• The kidsdemolished the cake and then ran back outside to play.• When they demolished the church, a cave was discovered beneath it.• Several houses were demolished to make way for the new road.• However the planners never allowed it to open and the building is set to be demolished within the next few weeks.
Origindemolish
(1500-1600)Old Frenchdemolir, from Latinmoliri“to build”