Synonyms for tear down

Grammar : Verb

Spell : tair

Phonetic Transcription : tɛər

Top 10 synonyms for tear down

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Définition of tear down

Origin : 1650s, mainly in American English, from tear (n.1). Related: Teared; tearing. Old English verb tæherian did not survive into Middle English.

verb demolish, raze

Example sentences :

I mean to tear down some of those houses—Dinney's, at any rate.
Extract from : « Gloria and Treeless Street » by Annie Hamilton Donnell

Then, when the place is his, he can tear down or rebuild, just as he sees fit.
Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Nature is still making mountains which we have to tear down.
Extract from : « Conservation Reader » by Harold W. Fairbanks

I will tear down and smash the apple tree, and pull it up by the roots.
Extract from : « The Sand-Hills of Jutland » by Hans Christian Andersen

He wished Lena would not tear down the veils of reticence so ruthlessly.
Extract from : « Jewel Weed » by Alice Ames Winter

It has always been like this; I have built up that others might tear down.
Extract from : « The Road to Frontenac » by Samuel Merwin

"I could tear down the pillars of Gaza at this moment," I replied.
Extract from : « Hurricane Island » by H. B. Marriott Watson

Let us tear down to Whitecliffe at once and buy him a present.
Extract from : « A Patriotic Schoolgirl » by Angela Brazil

But it was not enough to tear down; construction was as necessary as destruction.
Extract from : « Jeppe on the Hill » by Ludvig Holberg

"If I could only tear down this thin partition," he thought.
Extract from : « The Honor of the Name » by Emile Gaboriau

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