tore down; torn down; tearing down; tears down
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: to take apart : disassemble
tear down an engine
Synonyms
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
Recent Examples on the Web
Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
Bonner said a lot of the teardown and packing up had been done Saturday over about two or three hours after the festival ended.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
Sensing another teardown, Stafford went to ownership and requested a trade, which was quickly granted during Holmes’ first few weeks on the job.
—Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2024
But Arlington Forest has only seen a handful of teardowns.
—Hope Hodge Seck, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
Then, an immediate check for lubrication pressure and temperature ensures no defects that may require a teardown.
—Michael Teo Van Runkle, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2023
The videos are essentially full teardowns of each controller.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2023
While teardowns have been few, additions are prevalent.
—Debbie Funk, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
The Smart Home Scene blog did a teardown and chip ID on the Homey Pro for those working at that level of smart home engagement.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2023
Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2024
The process of our engineer Steve more or less tearing down his entire studio, putting it in a truck, and moving it that far away, and then taking it out of the truck, resetting it all up, plugging it back in, hundreds of cables and things—that process in itself would have eaten a week of our time.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 5 Apr. 2024
The smaller Copco No. 2 Dam was torn down last year as the project began.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
Empty buildings are torn down and replaced with luxury apartments.
—Eva Wen, Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2024
Even so, the construction site has been abandoned for years, and the astronomical resources required to either complete or tear down the project seem far away.
—Steve Appleford, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
One is that if a storm causes damage worth at least 50% of the value of a property — known as substantial damage — it must be torn down and built up to the newest building codes.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
After tearing down apartments built in the 1970s, development stalled on the lot — which sits at Providence and Fairview roads in south Charlotte — when Daniel Levine and David Miller filed lawsuits against each other in 2019.
—Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2024
That building continued last week with some tearing down, the Chargers parting ways with Herbert’s top two wide receivers because of salary cap issues that limited their flexibility,.
—Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Noun
The deal means the Sharks do not have any more salary retention spots left until the summer of 2025, likely hampering efforts to trade either captain Logan Couture or defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic in the next calendar year if the Sharks want to continue the teardown.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
Bonner said a lot of the teardown and packing up had been done Saturday over about two or three hours after the festival ended.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
Sensing another teardown, Stafford went to ownership and requested a trade, which was quickly granted during Holmes’ first few weeks on the job.
—Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2024
But Arlington Forest has only seen a handful of teardowns.
—Hope Hodge Seck, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
Then, an immediate check for lubrication pressure and temperature ensures no defects that may require a teardown.
—Michael Teo Van Runkle, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2023
The videos are essentially full teardowns of each controller.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2023
While teardowns have been few, additions are prevalent.
—Debbie Funk, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
The Smart Home Scene blog did a teardown and chip ID on the Homey Pro for those working at that level of smart home engagement.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2023
Verb
In 1904, Elgin’s former mansion was torn down and replaced by the existing structure, a seven-story, Art Nouveau-style apartment building by the same architects as the Savoy Hotel, Thomas Edward Colcutt and his partner, Stanley Hamp.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2024
The process of our engineer Steve more or less tearing down his entire studio, putting it in a truck, and moving it that far away, and then taking it out of the truck, resetting it all up, plugging it back in, hundreds of cables and things—that process in itself would have eaten a week of our time.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 5 Apr. 2024
The smaller Copco No. 2 Dam was torn down last year as the project began.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
Empty buildings are torn down and replaced with luxury apartments.
—Eva Wen, Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2024
Even so, the construction site has been abandoned for years, and the astronomical resources required to either complete or tear down the project seem far away.
—Steve Appleford, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
One is that if a storm causes damage worth at least 50% of the value of a property — known as substantial damage — it must be torn down and built up to the newest building codes.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
After tearing down apartments built in the 1970s, development stalled on the lot — which sits at Providence and Fairview roads in south Charlotte — when Daniel Levine and David Miller filed lawsuits against each other in 2019.
—Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2024
That building continued last week with some tearing down, the Chargers parting ways with Herbert’s top two wide receivers because of salary cap issues that limited their flexibility,.
—Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
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