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TEARING DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tearing down mean? 

TEARING DOWN (noun)
  The noun TEARING DOWN has 1 sense:

1. complete destruction of a buildingplay

  Familiarity information: TEARING DOWN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TEARING DOWN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Complete destruction of a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

demolishing; leveling; razing; tearing down

Hypernyms ("tearing down" is a kind of...):

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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