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- Dictionaryraze/reɪz/
verb
- 1. completely destroy (a building, town, or other settlement): "villages were razed to the ground"
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The meaning of RAZE is to destroy to the ground : demolish. How to use raze in a sentence.
to completely destroy a city, building, etc.: The town was razed to the ground in the bombing raid - not a building was left standing. Synonyms. destroy. level. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Destroying and demolishing. annihilate. annihilation. apocalypse. bash through (something) be sacrificed on the altar of something idiom. costly
Raze definition: to tear down; demolish; level to the ground. See examples of RAZE used in a sentence.
1. to demolish (a town, buildings, etc) completely; level (esp in the phrase raze to the ground) 2. to delete; erase. 3. (Agriculture) archaic to graze. [C16: from Old French raser from Latin rādere to scrape] ˈrazer, ˈraser n.
Raze is most often used to refer to knocking buildings down for construction projects, but it can also describe tearing down other objects. You can raze the sand dunes in order to make the beach perfectly flat.
Definition of raze verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. to tear down; demolish; level to the ground. to raze a row of old buildings.
