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- Now they had to start a new inquiry, establish the identities of the deceased and the manner of death, and there was no telling when the whole damned place could be razed, cleared, and neatly erased from history, which everyone agreed was long overdue.†
p. 3.7razed = completely destroyed
- All those buildings that had seen so much, and they go ahead and raze them.†
p. 209.9 *raze = completely destroy
Definitions:
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(1)
(raze) completely destroy -- usually of buildings with the implication that they are flattened to the ground
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)