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To destroy; to demolish; to erase; to efface; to obliterate; as, to raze a building. ... to raze. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: edaphizo Phonetic Spelling: (ed-af-id'-zo) Short Definition: I dash to the ground Definition: I dash to the ... ... razing, destroying. Cognate: 2506 (from 2507 ) -- demolition, ie taking.
RAZE, noun A root. [See Race-ginger, under Race.] RAZE, verb transitive [Latin rasus, rado. See Rase and Erase.] 1. To subvert from the foundation; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish; as, to raze a city to the ground. The royal hand that raz'd unhappy Troy. 2. To erase; to efface; to obliterate. Razing the characters of your renown.
He brings down the high fortifications of your walls and lays them low; he will raze them to the ground, right down to the dust. And they will raze you to the ground, [you] and your children within you, and will not leave a stone upon a stone within you, {because} you did not recognize the time of your visitation."
To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to rase a city. In this sense, raze is generally used. This orthography, rase, may therefore be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase and raze having superseded it. RASE, n. 1. A cancel; erasure. Not in use. 2. A slight wound. Not in use.
Raze: To Demolish; to Strip Bare. Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, RAZE it, RAZE it, even to the foundation thereof. ( Psalm 137:7 )
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Raze. To demolish; to strip bare. Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, RAZE it, RAZE it, even to the foundation thereof. ( Psalm 137:7) Source: A King James Dictionary. (Used with permission. Copyright © Philip P. Kapusta)
