1. raze - Noun
2. raze - Verb
A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.
To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go. Ingrid Newkirk
The Fuhrer has decided to raze the city of St. Petersburg from the face of the earth. After the defeat of Soviet Russia there will be not the slightest reason for the future existence of this large city. Walter Warlimont
A Half-Blood of the eldest gods, Shall reach sixteen against all odds And see the world in endless sleep The Hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap A single choice shall end his days Olympus to preserve or raze. Rick Riordan
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart. William Shakespeare
You raze the old to raise the new. Justina Chen
The building was levelled Source: Internet