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verb (used with object), razed, raz·ing.
1.
to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
2.
to shave or scrape off.
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Raze
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raze
1547, alteration of racen "pull or knock down" (a building or town), from earlier rasen (14c.) "to scratch, slash, scrape, erase," from O.Fr. raser "to scrape, shave," from M.L. rasare, frequentative of L. radere (pp. rasus) "to scrape, shave," perhaps from PIE *razd- (cf. L. rastrum "rake"), possible
EXPANDextended form of PIE base *red- "to scrape, scratch, gnaw" (see rodent).
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