bulldoze vs tear down

bulldoze and tear down both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bulldoze	No	No	Yes	No
tear down	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, tear down is a hypernym of bulldoze; that is, tear down is a word with a broader meaning than bulldoze:

Other hypernyms of bulldoze include dismantle, level, pull down, rase, raze, take down.

bulldoze (verb)	tear down (verb)
flatten with or as if with a bulldozer	tear down so as to make flat with the ground