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Princeton's WordNet

  1. level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull downverb

    tear down so as to make flat with the ground

    "The building was levelled"

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  1. tear downverb

    To demolish

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  1. danewort

  2. downrate

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tear down in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tear down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of tear down in a Sentence

  1. Brigham Young:

    Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

  2. Wendy Young:

    I fear that one of the insidious agenda items here is for the administration to jettison the protections... all the policies and procedures we built up over the years to protect the children in the system, we were starting to get there and then under this administration -- a system that has taken us 30 years to build, it's taken them three months to tear down.

  3. President Barack Obama:

    What greater rejection of those who will tear down our world than marshalling our best efforts to save it?

  4. Dan Kanninen:

    What Mr. Trump does across the board is create doubt about our institutions, it is to his advantage to tear down institutions.

  5. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake:

    (The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.


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