esventrament

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Catalan

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Etymology

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From esventrar +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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esventrament m (plural esventraments)

  1. evisceration
  2. teardown, demolition
    • 1964, Josep Maria Ferrer, L'urbanisme:
      Els esventraments d'Haussmann destruïren la vida local dels barris, alhora que els eixamplaments de vies suprimien la intimitat del porta a porta tot esperant que el trànsit mecànic vingués a interposar una barrera incessant entre totes dues vores del carrer.
      Haussmann's teardowns destroyed the local life of the neighbourhoods, at the same time that the widening of the roads suppressed the door-to-door intimacy in the expectation that mechanical transit would come to interpose an incessant barrier between both sides of the street.

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