leveling
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈlɛvəlɪŋ/
- US
:
nivelación
- (Public ire at the leveling of the 1910 building is credited with launching the modern preservationist movement.)
- leveling of the city
Examples
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This entire neighborhood was levelled That's crazy.
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This was the biggest showing by the 'clean-up crew' that I have seen since immediately following the leveling of the Twin Towers.
Blog text (34) -
Outside the walls, homes are levelled to clear fields of fire.
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Settlements lost their community focus to the point that, as noted by Herbert Gans in The Urban Villagers, a Boston settlement did not oppose the leveling of the city's West End for an urban renewal program of luxury high-rises.
Academic text (1992) -
We recall the terrible odds against which Pericles and Demosthenes battled, the thirty years of the Peloponnesian War, the heavy casualties, the plague, the crushing defeat, and the leveling of the long walls.
Academic text (1997) -
The leveling of the old factory left the area completely flat, making way for new construction.
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After the leveling of the historic building, the city council planned to develop a new park in its place.
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Witnesses recalled the leveling of the small village during the conflict, which left nothing but rubble behind.
Synonyms
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4.2
The act of destroying a building or other structure on purpose
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4.4
The act of tearing down a building to destroy it
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4.2
An act of completely taking down a building so it no longer exists
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7.8
The act of completely destroying a building
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5.5
Taking down a building so a new one can be built
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4.4
A complete tearing down of a building or other structure
The act of destroying something so it is completely ruined
Taking apart a building so parts can be reused
How Flattened
- US
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5.6
72
4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Leveling comes from the old idea of level meaning 'flat' or 'even', and from words for balance like Libra which means 'scales'. So to level a building is to make it flat with the ground, often by knocking it down until it is all one even surface.