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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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