TEAR DOWN

I. (verb)

Meaning:

Tear down so as to make flat with the ground

Example:

The building was levelled

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "tear down" is one way to...):

destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tear down"):

bulldoze (flatten with or as if with a bulldozer)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something