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tearing downverbpresent participle of tear down to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness ofvandals tore down the wooden fence blocking the entrance to the beach annihilating, creaming, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, doing in, extinguishing, nuking, pulling down, pulverizing, razing, rubbing out, ruining, shattering, smashing, totaling(or totalling), vaporizing, wasting, wracking, wrecking beating, besting, clobbering, conquering, crushing, defeating, drubbing, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), routing, scotching, skunking, subduing, surmounting, thrashing, trimming, triumphing (over), trouncing, walloping, whipping, winning (against)blasting, blowing up, breaking, crippling, damaging, defacing, deteriorating, disfiguring, disintegrating, dissolving, dynamiting, harming, impairing, injuring, mangling, marring, mutilating, spoiling, vitiatingeroding, scouring, sweeping (away), washing out, wearing (away)dilapidating, disassembling, dismantling, gutting, taking down, unbuilding, undoing, unmakingblotting out, effacing, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extirpating, liquidating, obliterating, removing, rooting (out), snuffing (out), stamping (out), wiping outdespoiling, havocking, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravaging, sacking, trampling, trashing, vandalizingassassinating, butchering, cutting down, dispatching, executing, felling, killing, killing off, massacring, mowing (down), murdering, slaughtering, slaying, taking out, zapping building, constructing, erecting, putting up, raising, rearing, setting up doctoring, fixing, mending, patching, reconditioning, repairing, revampingcreating, inventingassembling, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, framing, making, manufacturing, molding, producing, shapingbringing about, constituting, establishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizingconserving, preserving, protecting, savingrebuilding, reconstructing, remodeling, renovating, restoring to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to piecesthe new owners apparently bought the house just to tear it down and build a lavish mansion in its place demolishing, leveling(or levelling), pulling down, razing, unbuilding blowing up, dynamitingabolishing, annihilating, cracking up, crushing, dashing, decimating, destroying, devastating, devouring, dissolving, doing in, eradicating, extirpating, finishing, flattening, obliterating, overturning, pulverizing, ravaging, ruining, scourging, smashing, totaling(or totalling), unmaking, wasting, wiping out, wrecking building, constructing, erecting, putting up, raisingrebuilding, renewing, renovating, restoringcreating, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, making, manufacturing, shaping |