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Synonyms for torn down
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : teer |
| Phonetic Transcription : tɪər |
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Définition of torn 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
- She would have torn down the flaming signal, but it was too late.
- Extract from : « Master of the Vineyard » by Myrtle Reed
- He had torn down the old stable and built an imposing new one.
- Extract from : « A Cousin's Conspiracy » by Horatio Alger
- It might have been torn down and reassembled into some sort of a decent craft.
- Extract from : « A Village of Vagabonds » by F. Berkeley Smith
- For, since no man feels himself free of such strokes of chance, he will not take it easily when they are torn down and laughed at.
- Extract from : « An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams » by Pierre Nicole
- In this process the clerk's office which was built in 1876 was torn down.
- Extract from : « The Fairfax County Courthouse » by Ross D. Netherton
- The house has been torn down to make way for a modern building.
- Extract from : « Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 » by Francis Marion Crawford
- He specified only that they must not be torn down, but that I might use them as I should see fit.
- Extract from : « Pharaoh's Broker » by Ellsworth Douglass
- In 1906 the building was torn down and other arrangements had to be made.
- Extract from : « The Kirk on Rutgers Farm » by Frederick Brckbauer
- Wolves had torn down the boundary-posts, which signified the wrath of the gods.
- Extract from : « Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) » by Charles Morris
- The houses of the people had been pilfered of all valuables and then torn down or burned.
- Extract from : « Rinkitink in Oz » by L. Frank Baum
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