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单词 tear someone/thing down
释义

tear someone/thing down

1Demolish something, especially a building: they tore down an old barn for lumber...
  • India grows more prosperous, the outside world enters willy-nilly, old buildings are torn down.
  • Now Croydon was much like I remembered it, only some of the old buildings had been torn down and other buildings put up.
  • Old, rundown buildings are torn down to make way for the new.

Synonyms

demolish, knock down, pull down, raze, raze to the ground, flatten, level, bulldoze;
take down, dismantle, disassemble
2US informal Criticize or punish someone severely: they tear a man down and threaten him and then they give him another chance...
  • There's a lot here we don't know but there's some that we've learned in recent weeks that does suggest that they really were out to get Wilson or criticize him or tear him down a bit.
  • Or was he a cruel and egotistical monster who tore people down to build himself up?
  • I was so successful that they tore me down because my album was at number 2 instead of number 1.
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