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TEAR DOWN
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tear down so as to make flat with the ground
Example:
The building was levelled
Synonyms:
dismantle; level; pull down; rase; raze; take down; tear down
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "tear down" is one way to...):
destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tear down"):
bulldoze (flatten with or as if with a bulldozer)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
