demolishing
取り壊す
解説 Definition
demolishing は demolish（取り壊す）の現在分詞・動名詞です。建物や構造物を壊して取り除くことを表し、計画的な解体作業についてよく使われます。
Demolishing is the process or ongoing action of deliberately destroying a building, bridge, or other structure so that it is removed. The form serves as the present participle or gerund of demolish.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
demolish「建物などを取り壊す」に -ing をそのまま付けた現在分詞・動名詞です。語末が sh なので子音を重ねず demolishing とします。destroy より、建物・橋・危険な住宅を計画的に解体して除去する場面に合い、demolish a building という目的語との組み合わせで覚えます。
Demolishing is demolish plus -ing, with no doubled consonant and no dropped letter: demolish becomes demolishing. Picture a planned worksite where crews are taking down an old theater, unsafe houses, or a bridge. This helps distinguish the word from the broader destroy, which can describe damage to almost anything and need not be planned. Demolish commonly takes a structure as its object: demolish a building, a wall, or a bridge. The -ing form either describes work now in progress, as in “Workers are demolishing it,” or names the process itself.
例文
Workers are demolishing the old theater downtown.
作業員たちが中心街の古い劇場を取り壊しています。
The city began demolishing unsafe houses after the inspection.
市は点検後、危険な住宅の取り壊しを始めました。
Demolishing the bridge will take several weeks.
その橋を取り壊すには数週間かかります。
demolishing の類義語・関連語
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派生語
demolishing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語 demoliri（de-「完全に」+ moliri「建てる、積み上げる」）に由来。moles「塊、土台」が語根で、原義は「土台から完全に崩す」。関連語: molecule（小さな塊）、molar（塊の→臼歯）。建物を基礎から壊すイメージが現在の「取り壊す」の意味に直結している。
Demolishing is the -ing form of demolish. Demolish entered English through French from Latin demoliri, meaning to tear down. The Latin verb combines de-, conveying removal or reversal, with moliri, meaning to construct or undertake and related to moles, “mass” or “structure.” Its history therefore fits the modern idea of taking a substantial structure apart, often from its foundations.
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