All 4 Uses of
raze
in
Atlas Shrugged
- For instance, there was a fire at the d'Anconia ore docks in Valparaiso tomorrow morning, a fire that razed them to the ground along with half of the port structures.†
Chpt 2.2
- In the next half-hour, Boyle's mills were razed to the ground.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- Razed, wiped out, not a brick of them left standing.†
Chpt 2.7
- The streets seemed razed by exhaustion, not by rest, as if the men inside the walls were not asleep, but had collapsed.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(raze) completely destroy -- usually of buildings with the implication that they are flattened to the ground