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RAZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does raze mean?
• RAZE (verb)
The verb RAZE has 1 sense:
1. tear down so as to make flat with the ground
Familiarity information: RAZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it razes Past simple: razed
Past participle: razed
-ing form: razing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tear down so as to make flat with the ground
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
dismantle; level; pull down; rase; raze; take down; tear down
Context example:
The building was levelled
Hypernyms (to "raze" is one way to...):
destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "raze"):
bulldoze (flatten with or as if with a bulldozer)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
razing (complete destruction of a building)
razing (the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled)
Context examples
Fires raging in Australia since September have killed 24 people, destroyed more than 1,500 homes, and razed 6 million hectares of land, leaving more than 500 million animals dead.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
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