Destroying
Tearing down and destroying are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tearing down" instead an adjective "Destroying".
Tearing down
Tearing down noun - Complete destruction of a building.
Show all Definitions
Synonyms for Tearing down
Destroying and tearing down are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Destroying" instead an adjective phrase "Tearing down".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- destruction and destroying
- destruction and tearing down
- shattering and destroying
- shattering and tearing down
- smashing and destroying
- smashing and tearing down
- destructive and destroying
- destructive and tearing down
- devastate and destroying
- devastate and tearing down
- obliterate and destroying
- obliterate and tearing down
- raze and destroying
- raze and tearing down
Both terms in one sentence
-
The Red Lotus from The Legend of Korra, who want to "restore balance" by tearing down society and destroying the world's leaders.
Source: Bomb-Throwing Anarchists -
The Very Definitely Final Dungeon: The penultimate mission ends with the player tearing down the last of the other two superpowers, leaving the last mission of destroying one very final target of resistance: Allied: The Peter and Paul Fortress in Leningrad, to stop the Premier escaping to the moon.
Cite this Source
Tearing down and Destroying. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/destroying/tearing_down
Destroying & Tearing down. N.p., 2016. Web. 01 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/destroying/tearing_down>.
Tearing down or Destroying. 2016. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/destroying/tearing_down.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "destroying" and "tearing down" have occurred on timeline