raze Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb tear down so as to make flat with the ground
    rase; level; take down; dismantle; pull down; tear down.
    • The building was levelled

WordNet

Raze noun
Etymology
See Rack.
Definitions
  1. A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root. Obs.
Raze transitive verb
Etymology
F. raser. See Rase, v. t.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Razed ; present participle & verbal noun Razing
Definitions
  1. To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
    Razing the characters of your renown. Shak.
  2. To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to destroy; to demolish.
    The royal hand that razed unhappy Troy. Dryden.
    Syn. -- To demolish; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; ruin. See Demolish.

Webster 1913