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1. Destroy (a building or buildings) so as to make nearly level the ground
   "When a force occupies an enemy fortress, it may pull down the fortifications";
   - level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, flatten
    
2. Cause to come or go down
   "The policeman pulled down the heavily armed suspect";
   - down [informal], knock down, cut down, push down

Derived forms: pulls down, pulling down, pulled down

Type of: destroy, destruct, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], strike, uncreate [literary]

Encyclopedia: Pull down