RAZE

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.

2.
v.

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

3.
v.

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


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