raze /ˈrez/
(vt.)毀滅,刮去,把…夷為平地,消除,抹去,破壞
Rase v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rased p. pr. & vb. n. Rasing.]
1. To rub along the surface of; to graze. [Obsoles.]
Was he not in the . . . neighborhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head? --South.
Sometimes his feet rased the surface of the water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose. --Beckford.
2. To rub or scratch out; to erase. [Obsoles.]
Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind. --Fuller.
3. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze. [In this sense raze is generally used.]
Till Troy were by their brave hands rased,
They would not turn home. --Chapman.
Note: ☞ This word, rase, may be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase, and raze, having superseded it.
Rasing iron, a tool for removing old oakum and pitch from the seams of a vessel.
Syn: -- To erase; efface; obliterate; expunge; cancel; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; demolish; ruin.
Raze n. A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root. [Obs.]
Raze, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Razed p. pr. & vb. n. Razing.] [Written also rase.]
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 overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.
The royal hand that razed unhappy Troy. --Dryden.
Syn: -- To demolish; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; ruin. See Demolish.
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raze
v : tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building
was levelled" [syn: level, rase, dismantle, tear
down, take down, pull down] [ant: raise]