tear down

Questions about tear down

What does tear down mean?

tear down means "tear down so as to make flat with the ground".

What is another word for tear down?

Close synonyms include level, raze, rase, dismantle, take down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tear down a common word?

tear down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.