Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tearing_down

1 sense of tearing down

Sense 1
razing, leveling, tearing down, demolishing -- (complete destruction of a building)
       => destruction, devastation -- (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb tear_down

1 sense of tear down

Sense 1
level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down -- (tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled")
       => destroy, destruct -- (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house")