bulldoze vs tear something down

bulldoze

verb
  • To destroy with a bulldozer. 

  • To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does. 

  • To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully. 

  • To push through forcefully. 

  • To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over". 

tear something down

How often have the words bulldoze and tear something down occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )