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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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"Razing" Quotes from Famous Books

... against this church, as having taken the lead of most others in razing the very foundation stone of the covenanted structure. All the evils that have befallen the professed friends of a work of reformation on both sides of the Atlantic are traceable to a setting aside the footsteps ...

— Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive • The Reformed Presbytery

... legislate almost solely in its interests and according to its needs. It captured direct representation in Parliament and utilized it for the destruction of the last vestiges of real power which remained to landed property. Lastly, it is at this moment engaged in razing to the ground the splendid structure of the English constitution before which M. ...

— Selected Essays • Karl Marx

... Revolution affords illustrations of the worst human passions. When the wretched COLLOT D'HERBOIS was tossed up in the storm to the summit of power, a monstrous imagination seized him; he projected razing the city of Lyons and massacring its inhabitants. He had even the heart to commence, and to continue this conspiracy against human nature; the ostensible crime was royalism, but the secret motive is said to have been literary vengeance! As wretched a poet and ...

— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli