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Definition: TO TEAR DOWN |
TO TEAR DOWN1. To demolish violently; to pull or pluck down. |
Crosswords: TO TEAR DOWN |
| Specialty definitions using "TO TEAR DOWN": Blood. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You mean, they didn't tell you they were going to tear down your apartment building? (Taxi; writing credit: Grahame Bond; Jim Burnett) | |
Lyrics | I want to tear down the walls (Where the Streets Have no Name; performing artist: U2) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Burma | Since the early 1990's, security forces have torn down or forced villagers to tear down crosses that had been erected outside Chin Christian villages. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The time has come for a new American emancipation--a great national drive to tear down economic barriers and liberate the spirit of enterprise in the most distressed areas of our country. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We ought to tear down barriers, open markets, and expand trade. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "TO TEAR DOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | هدم (destroy). (various references) | ||||
Chinese | 拆 (to open, to tear apart, to tear open). (various references) | ||||
German | abbrechen (abbort, abort, break, break away, break off, breakups, call off, cancel, demolish, discontinue, sever, shear off, snap off, split off, stop, strike, tear down, terminate, to abort, to break away, to break off, to cut short, to discontinue, to dismantle, to sever, to truncate). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | végigszáguld (to barrel, to barrel down, to sweep), leszakít (tear away, to break away, to pluck, to pluck off, to rip off, to sliver, to tear away), lerombol (bulldoze, demolish, lay low, rase, raze, ruin, to break down, to demolish, to destroy, to knock down, to lay flat, to lay low, to pull down, to vandalize), lerohan (attack, overrun, raid over, to blitz, to bound downstairs). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 叩き壊す (to shatter). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | たたき"わす (to shatter). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay eartay ownday | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | deripio, destruo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-o-o-r-t-t-w" | |
-1 letter: detonator, rattooned. | |
-2 letters: attorned, danewort, ratooned, teardown, wanderoo. | |
-3 letters: arnotto, donator, notated, odonate, odorant, rattoon, rotated, tandoor, tornado. | |
-4 letters: ardent, atoned, atoner, attend, attorn, donate, dotter, downer, enroot, natter, notate, onward, orated, ornate, ranted, ratoon, ratted, ratten, ratton, redowa, roadeo, rodent, rooted, rotate, rotted, rotten, tarted, tetrad, tooted, tooter, torten, toward, trowed, wander, wanted. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 54 45 41 52 44 4F 57 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01010100 01000101 01000001 01010010 00100000 01000100 01001111 01010111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   T E A R   D O W N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0054 0045 0041 0052 0044 004F 0057 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449254393552238495748 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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