tore down; torn down; tearing down; tears down
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: to take apart : disassemble
tear down an engine
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Examples of teardown in a Sentence
Verb
vandals tore down the wooden fence blocking the entrance to the beach
the new owners apparently bought the house just to tear it down and build a lavish mansion in its place
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Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2024
Right on schedule for past releases, iFixit has done a teardown of Apple's new, redesigned iPad Pro.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
Claudia Williams, Architectural Digest, 6 Aug. 2024
Statues of Hugo Chávez, the popular former president who laid the foundation for Mr. Maduro’s government ideology chavismo, were torn down.
—Mie Hoejris Dahl, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2024
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Noun
Even though Detroit City Council voted to pause the demolition effort to allow more time to research preservation options, the city's top attorney opined that council in fact lacked such authority, and the teardown proceeded.
—Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2024
Right on schedule for past releases, iFixit has done a teardown of Apple's new, redesigned iPad Pro.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
Verb
Hunt altered the appearance of the home to such an extent that passersby thought the original house had been torn down.
—Claudia Williams, Architectural Digest, 6 Aug. 2024
Statues of Hugo Chávez, the popular former president who laid the foundation for Mr. Maduro’s government ideology chavismo, were torn down.
—Mie Hoejris Dahl, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2024
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“Teardown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teardown. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
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