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/rˈeɪzɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Raze v. t. (past & past part. razed; pres. part. razing) (Written also rase)

To erase; to efface; to obliterate. "Razing the characters of your renown."

To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish. "The royal hand that razed unhappy Troy."

Synonyms: To demolish; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; ruin. See Demolish.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... numerous travellers; but a ruthless successor in the ownership of New Place, the Reverend Francis Gastrell, annoyed by the concourse of visitors, was Vandal enough to cut it down. Such was the anger of the people that he was obliged to leave the place, which he did after razing the mansion to the ground. His name is held in great detestation at Stratford now, as every traveller ...

— English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History - Designed as a Manual of Instruction • Henry Coppee

... Protestants.[136] The Capuchin preacher, Pistoja, bore witness that men were hanged and quartered almost daily at Rome;[137] and Pius declared that he would release a culprit guilty of a hundred murders rather than one obstinate heretic.[138] He seriously contemplated razing the town of Faenza because it was infested with religious error, and he recommended a similar expedient to the King of France.[139] He adjured him to hold no intercourse with the Huguenots, to make no terms with them, and not to observe the ...

— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton