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RAZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they raze ... 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
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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