1. The act of demolishing
   "the teardown of the huge tower was quite a spectacle";
   - demolition
    
2. The dismantling of a device to see the components
   "the teardown shows the phone will be a pain to self-repair"
    
3. A building purchased for demolition and development
   "The developer bought several teardowns in the neighbourhood to build new condos"

1. Destroy or completely remove a building or structure
   "When a force occupies an enemy fortress, it may tear down the fortifications";
   - level, raze, rase [archaic], dismantle, take down, pull down, flatten, demolish, knock down

Derived forms: teardowns, tearing down, torn down, tears down, tore down

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

Encyclopedia: Teardown