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1. The act of demolishing
   - demolition
    
2. The dismantling of a device to see the components
   "the teardown shows the phone will be a pain to self-repair"
    
3. A building purchased for demolition and development

1. Destroy (a building or buildings) so as to make nearly level the ground
   "When a force occupies an enemy fortress, it may tear down the fortifications";
   - level, raze, rase, dismantle, take down, pull down, flatten

Derived forms: tearing down, torn down, teardowns, tears down, tore down

Type of: destroy, destruct, destruction, devastation, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], uncreate [literary]

Encyclopedia: Teardown