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[ verb ] tear down so as to make flat with the ground

Examples

"The building was levelled"

Used in print

(Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)

The posse then asked that he send_out the women and children as the building would be fired or torn_down over his head if necessary to take him dead or alive .

(Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)

But William continued to find a bitter joy in smashing images and tearing_down symbols sacred to the Old_Church .

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