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pull down: (i. e. to demolish):

1. dēmōlior, 4 (to do away with, break down, demolish): to p. down a partition wall, parietem d., Cic. Top. 4, 22: to p. down a house (in order to build another), domum d., id. Off. 1, 39, 138: Liv.

2. destruo, xi, ctum, 3 (to take down or to pieces; not violently, but as a builder or constructor may do): to p. down a building, aedificium d., Cic. Sen. 20, 72 (opp. construere): Suet. Vesp. 9.

3. disjĭcio, jēci, jectum, 3 (violently and with hostile intent): v. TO DEMOLISH (4) RASE.

4. ēverto, 3 (also, with hostile intent): v. TO OVERTHROW.

5. rĕvello, velli, vulsum, 3: to p. down a thing from its fastenings, e. g. the gates of a temple, fores templi revellere, Suet. Cal. 6.

6. dēpōno, 3: to p. down a person from some high estate, de ministerio deponere aliquem, Vulg. Is. xxii. 19.

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