tear down

In a meeting with regulators in January, Chancellor Rachel Reeves told them they had "a part to play by tearing down the regulatory barriers that hold back growth".

DD: In the post-war era, we saw the tearing down of trade barriers and the idea that globalisation was good.

Harris was too often identified with the first position, even claiming that Trump wanted to go too far with his promises to “tear down the Department of Education.”

She also pledged to tear down wind farms which she called "windmills of shame", leave the EU's asylum system and "throw out" gender studies professors.

They were part of a left-wing group that demanded democracy and sought to tear down military rule.