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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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Razing
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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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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