raze

Speech parts

1. raze - Noun

2. raze - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

level rase destroy ruin dismantle tear down take down pull down wrack total dynamite destroyed fell consume overthrow
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Antonyms

gar found further make form help
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Hypernyms

destroy destruct

Hyponyms

bulldoze

Phrases with the word

raze to the ground

Derivatives

razed razing

Anagrams

Ezra Azer Reza

Examples

When 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

Close letter words and terms

razbazarivanie razbliuto Razdelnoye raze to the ground razed razee