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tear down

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of tear down

1 to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of
  • We tore down the wooden fence between the two yards.
Synonyms of tear down

annihilate, cream, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, extinguish, nuke, pull down, pulverize, raze, rub out, ruin, shatter, smash, total, vaporize, waste, wrack, wreck
Words Related to tear down

beat, best, clobber, conquer, crush, defeat, drub, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), rout, scotch, skunk, subdue, surmount, thrash, trim, triumph (over), trounce, wallop, whip, win (against)

blast, blow up, break, cripple, damage, deface, deteriorate, disfigure, disintegrate, dissolve, dynamite, harm, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mutilate, spoil, vitiate

erode, scour, sweep (away), wash out, wear (away)

dilapidate, disassemble, dismantle, gut, take down, unbuild, undo, unmake

blot out, efface, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root (out), snuff (out), stamp (out), wipe out

despoil, havoc, loot, pillage, plunder, ravage, sack, trample, trash, vandalize
Near Antonyms of tear down

doctor, fix, mend, patch, recondition, repair, revamp

create, invent

assemble, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, make, manufacture, mold, produce, shape

bring about, constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize

conserve, preserve, protect, save

rebuild, reconstruct, remodel, renovate, restore
Antonyms of tear down

build, construct, erect, put up, raise, rear, set up
2 to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to pieces
  • The new owners apparently bought the house just to tear it down and build a lavish mansion in its place.
Synonyms of tear down

demolish, level, pull down, raze, unbuild
Words Related to tear down

blow up, dynamite

abolish, annihilate, crack up, crush, dash, decimate, destroy, devastate, devour, dissolve, do in, eradicate, extirpate, finish, flatten, obliterate, overturn, pulverize, ravage, ruin, scourge, smash, total, unmake, waste, wipe out, wreck
Near Antonyms of tear down

build, construct, erect, put up, raise

rebuild, renew, renovate, restore

create, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, make, manufacture, shape

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