Build and Tear up

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Build verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.

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Tear up is an antonym for build.

Nearby Words: built, building, buildup, builder

Tear up verb - Tear into shreds.

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Build is an antonym for tear up in topics: ruin, destroy, flatten.

In the Live-Action film of The Wind in the Willows directed by Terry Jones, the weasels tear up the field where Mole lives in order to build a dog-food factory, and their grand plan is to dynamite the ancestral stately home Toad Hall and replace it with an abattoir.

Source: Community-Threatening Construction

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