Raze meaning

Verb: raze

Pronunciation: (reyz)

Raze meaning: Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.

Synonyms: dismantle, level, pull down, take down, tear down

Quotations: Thomas Mason – It’s going to be a long recovery period. It’s a big difference if the house is still structurally sound and just needs to be cleaned up, or if it is destroyed and needs to be razed. In the short run, people need to be reminded to be careful and not put themselves in harm’s way.

Wayne Davis – They checked to see how much it would cost to get it razed and levelled off again, and they said no. I was willing to lease it to them for $1 a year for as long as they wanted, but they didn’t want to do that and put money into it.

Susan Bandes – Had they not stepped in, the building would have been razed, and now it’s on the National Register. So we were looked at in a very different way there than I had understood from listening to people here.

William Shakespeare – The painful warrior famous for fight, after a thousand victories, once foiled, is from the books of honour razed quite, and all the rest forgot for which he toiled.

William Shakespeare – Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?

Sample sentences:

1. When a force occupies an enemy fortress, it may raze the fortifications.
2. The blaze razed four or five blocks that housed the male Indonesian inmates.
3. It’s going to be a long recovery period. It’s a big difference if the house is still structurally sound and just needs to be cleaned up, or if it is destroyed and needs to be razed. In the short run, people need to be reminded to be careful and not put themselves in harm’s way.
4. I think we ought to raze that prison.
5. One of the first decisions we had to make was whether to keep the existing building or raze it.
6. We will raze the old restaurant building and put up a new one.
7. I’m like the general public. I didn’t put it together about the razing until recently. A little bit, I was in denial.
8. I am so excited for that barn to go away. It was time to raze the barn.
9. The proposal involves razing the 40 year old steakhouse building, along with the butcher shop, and building a new two story Toyota dealership.
10. Methamphetamine is a poison taking Indian lives, destroying Indian families and razing entire communities. The remedy begins with more resources