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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 building
Familiarity information: TEARING DOWN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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