Tear Down

Definition: Tear Down

Tear Down

Verb

1. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Mechanical Engineering

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Synonyms: Tear Down

Crosswords: Tear Down

Tear down that bitch of a wall, and put a window where it ought to be! (Mommie Dearest; writing credit: Christina Crawford; Robert Getchell)

You mean, they didn't tell you they were going to tear down your apartment building? (Taxi; writing credit: Grahame Bond; Jim Burnett)

And go straight to the mall, and tear down the ("Still Fly"; performing artist: Big Tymers)

I want to tear down the walls ("Where the Streets Have no Name"; performing artist: U2)

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Books

• Distant Partner: How to Tear Down Emotional Walls and Communicate With Your Husband (reference)

• Tear Down the Walls!: A History of the American Civil Rights Movement (reference)

• To Pluck Up, to Tear Down (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Billy Ocean: Tear Down These Hits (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Tear Down the Wall (reference)

• Tear Down These Walls (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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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)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "tear down": tear down a building ♦ tear down an engine ♦ To tear down. Additional references.

Albanian

shqit (detach, disconnect, pull off, rip off, unstick), shkul (deracinate, drag out, extort, extract, grub, hank, jerk, pluck, pull, pull out, rip out, root up, skein, tear, tweak, wring, yank), shemb (collapse, contuse, demolish, pull down). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فكك (break up, disassemble, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, dissociate, disunite, take apart, take to pieces), ‏هدم (blight, demolish, demolition, destroy, destruction, do away with, level, pluck, pull down, sap, smash, take apart, tear, total). (various references)

Bulgarian 

събарям (bowl over, break down, bring down, demolish, dismantle, fell, fling, fling down, grass, kick over, knock down, knock off, lay low, overthrow, prostrate, pull down, push down, push over, rase, raze, ride down, run down, subvert, throw down), скъсвам (break, fail, plough, pluck, refer, rend, rip down, rip open, rupture, sever, snap, strand, tear, tear away, tear off, tear out, wear out), свалям (bring down, cast off, doff, douse, down, drop, drop off, get down, get off, land, lay, let off, overthrow, prang, prostrate, pull down, pull off, put down, put off, reach down, remove, ring down, rip down, rush, set down, shuck off, shuffle off, stretch, take down, take off, tear away, tear off, throw off, turn down, unbelt, uncap, unhorse, unship, vail), смъквам (bring down, divest, let down, pull down, rip away, rip off, shuffle off, tear off, throw off), опозорявам (attaint, bring on reproach, defame, degrade, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, gibbet, stigmatize), нося се бързо (scud). (various references)

Chinese 

拆 (to open, to tear apart, to tear down, to tear open). (various references)

Czech

zbourat (pull down), strhnout (break, break down, carry away, demolish, pull down, raze, strip, tear away, tear off), řítit se dolù. (various references)

Dutch

wegnemen van de uitrusting (teardown), opentrekken (set abroach). (various references)

Finnish

hajottaa (demolish, disperse, dissolve, scatter, take to pieces). (various references)

French

déséquipement (teardown), démonter, démolir (tear), démanteler. (various references)

German

abbrechen (abandon, abbort, abort, break, break away, break off, breakups, call off, cancel, demolish, DISC, disconnect command, discontinue, sever, shear off, snap, snap off, split off, stop, strike, terminate, to abort, to break away, to break off, to cut short, to discontinue, to dismantle, to sever, to tear down, to truncate). (various references)

Greek 

κατεδαφίζω (demolish, dismantle, pull down, rase, raze, wreck). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"חריב (destroy, devastate, ruin), ל�"רוס (bane, blight, demolish, destroy, havoc, pull down, ravage, ruin, shatter, wreck). (various references)

Hungarian

lebont (to break down, to degrade, to demolish, to disassemble, to dismantle, to knock down, to pull down, to rip, to unclinch, unbuild). (various references)

Italian

tirare giù, smontaggio (breakdown, disassembling, disassembly, dismantlement, dismantling, dismounting, teardown), demolire (abate, break down, break up, demolish, disestablish, pull, pull apart, pull down, scrap, shake, shoot down, take, take down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

叩き壊す (to shatter, to tear down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たたき�"わす (to shatter, to tear down). (various references)

Manx

raipey neose (tear off). (various references)

Pig Latin

eartay ownday.(various references)

Portuguese

destruir (blast, butcher, consume, defeat, demolish, depredate, destroy, devour, dilapidate, douse, eat crow, end, explode, extinguish, finished, havoc, impaired, kill the goose that lays golden eggs, mine, obliteration, override, overwhelm, poison, puncture, quash, quench, rase, ravage, raze, reave, reive, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, subvert, to kill, undo, unmake, wipe out, wrack, wreck), desmontagem (breakdown, disassembling, disassembly, dismantling, dismounting, teardown), desmantelar (demolish, dismantle, pull down, take apart). (various references)

Russian 

срывать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rušiti (demolish, desolate, dilapidate, raze), porušiti (demolish, destroy, level, pull down, rase, raze, subvert). (various references)

Spanish

salir de (exit, get out of, get over, lead, throw down, vacate), quitar (abstract, blow off, brush away, brush off, clear away, clear out, come off, encroach on, excise, get away, get off, get out, give, iron out, kill, knock off, knock out, lay, leak away, leak out, leave, lend, let away, litter, Parry, pick off, pinch, pull off, push off, relieve, remove, take away, take down, take from, take off, take out, take up, throw aside, throw away, throw over, throw up, tidy away, trim away, trim off, trot along, trot over, trot round, turn off, twist off, wash away, wash off, weaken, weed, withdraw), quedar (abide, agree, be situated, come off, come up, drop, fall on, fall upon, jack in, keep, lead off, leave, leave off, leave over, let into, line out, meet, remain, rest, stay, stick around, take away, take from, take off, take out, take up, throw aside, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, trail, trim away, trim off, weaken, wind), olvidar (come off, condone, forbid, forget, get over, leave, leave behind, leave out, leave over, lie back, neglect, omit, sink, take away, throw down), meter abajo, marcharse (clear out, come away, come off, depart, drive away, drive off, get off, go, go along, go away, go down, go off, leak away, leak out, leave, quit, take away, throw down, throw over, toddle, troop, trot, trot along, trot away, trot off), irse de éxito (draw, fail), echar abajo (break down, cast down, overthrow, shoot down, sink, throw down), desequipo (teardown), arrancar (abstract, blow away, draw, draw out, extort, extract, grub up, pick, pluck, pluck off, prise off, prize off, pull, pull away, pull off, pull out, pull up, put on, rip off, rip out, root up, start, start running, switch on, take away, tear, tear away, tear off, tear out, tear up, turn on, weed, win, wrest, wring), abandonar (abandon, bolt, break, call off, cast away, cede, chuck, clear away, come off, come up, desert, ditch, drop, drop out, flee, forsake, give in, give up, give way, iron out, jack in, lead off, leave, leave over, let into, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, take away, take from, take off, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, toss aside, walk out, walk out on, weaken, withdraw, yield). (various references)

Swedish

rusa nedför, riva (claw, grate, knock down, ravel, rip, rub, scratch, tear, wreck). (various references)

Turkish

sökmek (cut loose, demount, detach, disassemble, disjoint, dismantle, dismount, knock down, Ravel, ravel out, read, rip, rip off, slit, spring, take down, undo, unfix, unpick, unravel, unrig, unstitch). (various references)

Ukranian 

спростовувати пункт за пунктом, зривати (pick off, pluck, pull down, snatch off), зносити (abide, blow away, demolish, knock down, sit down under, take down, throw down, unbuild, undergo, weather). (various references)

demoliar, demolient, demolientes, demolientur, demolierunt, demolietur, demolire, demolirer, demoliri, demolita, demoliti, demolitum, demolitur, demolitus, demoliuntur, destruere. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: danewort, teardown.

-2 letters: ardent, atoned, atoner, donate, downer, onward, orated, ornate, ranted, redowa, rodent, toward, trowed, wander, wanted, wanter, warden, warned, warted, wonder, wonted.

-3 letters: adore, adorn, adown, anode, anted, antre, atone, awned, dater, dawen, denar, derat, dewan, dewar, doter, dower, drawn, drone, drown, endow, noted, noter, oared, oaten, oater, orate, oread, owned, owner, radon, rated, redan, redon, rewan, rewon, rowan, rowed, rowen, tardo, tared, tawed, tawer, tenor, toned, toner, towed, tower, trade, tread, trend, trode, trona, trone, wader, waned, wared, water, wrote.

-4 letters: aeon, aero, anew, ante, awed, dare, darn, dart, date, dato, dawn, dawt, dean, dear, dent, doat, doer, dona, done, dore, dote, down, drat, draw, drew, earn, enow, etna, nard, near, neat, nerd, newt, node, nota, note, nowt, odea, orad, owed, rand, rant, rate, rato, read, redo, rend, rent, road, roan, rode, rota, rote, tare, tarn, taro, tear, tend, tern, toad, toea, toed, tone, tora, tore, torn, town, trad, trod, trow, twae, wade, wand, wane, want, ward, ware, warn, wart, wean, wear, wend, went, wert, woad, wont, word, wore, worn, wort, wren.

-5 letters: ado, and, ane, ant, are, art, ate, awe, awn, daw, den, dew, doe, don, dor, dot, dow, ear, eat, end, eon, era, ern, eta, nae, naw, net, new, nod, nor, not, now, oar, oat, ode, one, ora, ore, ort, owe, own, rad, ran, rat, raw, red, ret, rod, roe, rot, row, tad, tae, tan, tao, tar, taw, tea, ted, ten, tew, tod, toe, ton, tor, tow, twa, two, wad, wae, wan, war, wat, wed, wen, wet, woe, won, wot.

+1 letter: daneworts, handwrote, teardowns.

+2 letters: downstater, downstream.

+3 letters: downhearted, downstaters, groundwater, outwardness.

+4 letters: groundwaters, towardliness, untowardness.

+5 letters: downheartedly, northeastward, northwestward, outwardnesses, thenceforward, waterflooding.

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