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tearing down

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Noun1.tearing downtearing down - complete destruction of a building
demolishing, leveling, razing
destruction, devastation - the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists


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And soon the dogs were all tearing down the field of young wheat next to ours.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
There lay the smooth road below us, we upon one side of it, the banked multitude wailing its other side -- a good clear road, and kept free by the police -- how good it would be to see my five hundred horsemen come tearing down it
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
THE news was all over town in two minutes, and you could see the people tearing down on the run from every which way, some of them putting on their coats as they come.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
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