Sample Sentences forraze (editor-reviewed)
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The developers wanted to raze the complex and replace it with a high-rise commercial building, but they were stopped when it was designated a national historic landmark.raze = completely destroy
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Hitler wanted Paris razed, but his general ignored the order and surrendered.razed = completely destroyed
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My father went there after the bombings and found the buildings completely razed to the ground. (source)razed = flattened
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Jan and Bob were staying three miles outside of Niland, at a place the locals call the Slabs, an old navy air base that had been abandoned and razed, leaving a grid of empty concrete foundations scattered far and wide across the desert. (source)razed = torn down so as to make flat with the ground
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But after the first city there was another, then another, city after city razed, the survivors drifting about like specters, picking through the rubble. (source)razed = completely destroyed
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The grove must be razed. (source)razed = completely destroyed (flattened)
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Laila is not as forgiving-Massoud's violent end brings her no joy, but she remembers too well the neighborhoods razed under his watch, the bodies dragged from the rubble, the hands and feet of children discovered on rooftops or the high branch of some tree days after their funeral. (source)razed = completely destroyed
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All those buildings that had seen so much, and they go ahead and raze them.† (source)
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I'm wondering if you ever think of razing it, just to show mercy?† (source)
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Thus they fared two hours or more trasing and rasing either other, where they might hit any bare place.† (source)unconventional spelling: Generally, the spelling razing is preferred.
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And then when Sir Gareth was in the field all folks saw him well and plainly that he was in yellow colours; and there he rased off helms and pulled down knights, that King Arthur had marvel what knight he was, for the king saw by his hair that it was the same knight.† (source)unconventional spelling: Generally, the spelling razed is preferred.
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Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies about, mounts, descends, thunders, tears, razes, crushes, demolishes, uproots, bearing with it great natures and small, the strong man and the feeble mind, the tree trunk and the stalk of straw.† (source)
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The power filtered down from His Majesty to the Rases, the Dejazmaches, and the lesser nobility, and then to the vassals and peons.† (source)unconventional spelling: Generally, the spelling razes is preferred.
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If you refuse, the ghetto will be razed to the ground.† (source)
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Then raze it to the ground and build anew to suit yourself.† (source)
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Just one looked capable of razing Rowan to its foundations and yet thirteen were now advancing upon the citadel fifty yards at a stride.† (source)
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