8 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
verb destroy completely
verb humiliate or depress completely
verb defeat soundly
originAttested since the 16th century; from Middle French demoliss-, the stem of some conjugated forms of the verb demolir (“to destroy”, “to tear down”), from Latin dēmōlior (“to tear down”). Displaced native Old English tōweorpan (literally “to throw apart”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0