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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

... people would not consider, or were reckless of the fact, that Pius was a devout Catholic as well as a liberal sovereign, and could not be expected to lend his aid to a project for stripping the papacy of all temporal power, if not for razing it to its foundations. The cries of expulsion and death to the Jesuits were also raised; and as that body, however obnoxious elsewhere, had given no offence at Rome, the Pope's sense of justice inclined him to protect them and to resist the ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne

... this mass will, it is believed, cause the world to topple over on its axis, so that the earth will be upset as an ant-heap overturned by a ploughshare. In that day the icebergs will come crunching against our proudest cities, razing them from off the face of the earth as though they were made of rotten blotting-paper. There is no respect now of Handel nor of Shakespeare; the works of Rembrandt and Bellini fossilise at the bottom of the sea. Grace, beauty, and wit, all that is precious in music, literature, and ...

— Selections from Previous Works - and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals • Samuel Butler