tearing down
Noun
Meaning
complete destruction of a building
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Examples
Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
What fascinates me about Duchamp is the idea of tearing down the wall between the art object and reality.
Despite what you hear, we don't need to make America great again. America has never stopped being great. But we do need to make America whole again. Instead of building walls, we need to be tearing down barriers.
There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.
If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.