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completely destroy — usually of buildings with the implication that they are flattened to the ground
- In the next half-hour, Boyle's mills were razed to the ground.2.7 Part 2 Chapter 7 — The Moratorium on Brains (9% in)
- 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.2.2 Part 2 Chapter 2 — The Aristocracy of Pull (92% in)
- Razed, wiped out, not a brick of them left standing.2.7 Part 2 Chapter 7 — The Moratorium on Brains (9% in)
- The streets seemed razed by exhaustion, not by rest, as if the men inside the walls were not asleep, but had collapsed.3.8 Part 3 Chapter 8 — The Egoist (33% in)
There are no more uses of "raze" in Atlas Shrugged.
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