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Definition of Tearing down

1. Noun. Complete destruction of a building.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tearing Down

Literary usage of Tearing down

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemistry of Familiar Things by Samuel Schmucker Sadtler (1915)
"As the tearing-down processes are going on now, we can form some idea as to ... Some of the tearing-down agencies that acted upon the original granite or ..."

2. Chemistry of Familiar Things by Samuel Schmucker Sadtler (1920)
"As the tearing-down processes are going on now, we can form some idea as to ... Some of the tearing-down agencies that acted upon the original granite or ..."

3. Lew Wallace; an Autobiography by Lew Wallace (1906)
"XLI Taking leave of the regiment—The staff—tearing down the rebel flag—General Smith's attitude—Grant's visit at Paducah—Damaging newspaper stories. ..."

4. Lew Wallace; an Autobiography by Lew Wallace (1906)
"XLI Taking leave of the regiment—The staff—tearing down the rebel flag—General Smith's attitude—Grant's visit at Paducah—Damaging newspaper stories. ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Personal Injuries: Including Employer's Liability by William Francis Bailey (1912)
"Repairing bridge. Repairing building. Repairing tracks. Sheeting trench. tearing down acid chamber in building. tearing down building. tearing down wall. ..."

6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1852)
"And thus I have, I trust, succeeded in tearing down one of the densest vails of darkened ignorance and human error." ANESTHETIC ACTION. ..."

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