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RAZE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tear down so as to make flat with the ground

Example:

The building was levelled

Synonyms:

dismantle; level; pull down; rase; raze; take down; tear down

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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)

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