Raze

Definition: Raze

Raze

Verb

1. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "raze" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Raze

Depression

Overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears.

Destruction

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Obliteration

Verb: efface, obliterate, erase, raze, rase, expunge, cancel; blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, apply the sponge.

Crosswords: Raze

Raze derakhte senjed (1971)

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Books

• Scara de raze (reference)

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STANLEY did dream the boar did raze our helms, And I did scorn it and disdain to fly.

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Expressions using "raze": raze out ♦ raze smth. to the ground ♦ raze to the ground. Additional references.

Albanian

rrafshoj me tokën (rase), rrëzoj (blow, bring down, chop down, defeat, demolish, depolarise, depose, destroy, dethrone, disenthrone, dismount, disprove, down, drop, eradiate, fail, fell, floor, kill, knock out, overthrow, plough, plow, pull down, pull over, push down, push over, rase, rebut, sink, spill, wreck), rrëshqas në sipërfaqën (rase), shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), fshij (brush, brush away, cancel, clean off, clean up, deface, delete, efface, erase, mop up, obliterate, rase, remove, rub, rub out, scratch out, strike off, sweep, wipe, wipe away, wipe off), dëboj (banish, cast out, deport, evict, excommunicate, exile, expel, hoot, laugh off, proscribe, rase, rout, send off, send packing, throw out), bëj rrafsh me tokën (rase). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قشط, ‏دمر كليا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

събарям (bowl over, break down, bring down, demolish, dismantle, fell, fling, fling down, grass, kick over, knock down, knock off, lay low, overthrow, prostrate, pull down, push down, push over, rase, ride down, run down, subvert, tear down, throw down), сривам със земята (rase), сривам до основи (rase), остригвам (cut smb.'s hair, rase, shear, strip), ожулвам (abrade, gall, rase, raw, rub sore, scrape, sting), изстъргвам (abrade, rase, rasp, scrape, scrape away), изтривам (delete, efface, erase, expunge, obliterate, rase, rub away, rub out, rub up, wear, wear away, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wipe up), изличавам (obliterate, rase, rub off). (various references)

Chinese 

忘却 (Oblivion, Oblivious, razed, razing). (various references)

Czech

strhnout (break, break down, carry away, demolish, pull down, strip, tear away, tear down, tear off), srovnat se zemí (level to the ground). (various references)

Farsi 

محوکردن (Blur, Deface, Efface, Eliminate, Erase, Expunge, Obliterate, Unbuild, Washout), ویران کردن (Demolish, Desolate, Destroy, Devastate, Gaunt, Harry, Havoc, Knockout, Ravage, Rubble, Ruinate, Throw), تراشیدن (Carve, Erase, Excoriate, Expunge, Face, Grain, Grave, Pare, Rase, Scrape, Shave, Trim, Whittle). (various references)

Finnish

hävittää maan tasalle (level to the ground). (various references)

French

raser, se raser, abattre � ras de terre. (various references)

German

zerstören (blast, blight, demolish, destroy, distroy, extinguish, gut, kill, quash, ruin, sink, spoil, to demolish, to destroy, to destruct, to kill, vandalize, wreck), schleifen (acuminate, blending, coasting, cut, cutting, drag, drill, edge, face, foul, frogmarch, grind, grinding, haul, hone, idling, polish, rub, rubbing, sand, sanding, sharpen, sliding, slip, slur, smoothing, surface grinding, sweat, to grind tools, to hone, to sharpen, to slide, to whet, trail, whet, whet 3)grounding). (various references)

Greek 

κατεδαφίζω (demolish, dismantle, pull down, rase, tear down, wreck), ισοπεδώνω (flatten, rase). (various references)

Hebrew 

למחוק (cancel, cross out, delete, efface, erase, rub out, rubber, strike off, strike out, wipe out, write off), לערות (decant, demolish, denude, empty, expose, lay bare, pour out, spill, strip, uncover), ל�"רוס ע�" �"יסו�" (level). (various references)

Hungarian

lerombol (bulldoze, demolish, lay low, rase, ruin, to break down, to demolish, to destroy, to knock down, to lay flat, to lay low, to pull down, to tear down, to vandalize), földdel egyenlõvé tesz (rase). (various references)

Italian

abbattere (bowl over, break, break down, cut down, deject, demolish, down, fall, fell, flatten, knock down, lay, lose heart, overthrow, put down, put to sleep, rase, shoot down, smash down, smash in, throw, to destroy, to kill). (various references)

Manx

lhieggal (beat down, beat down price, bowl over, cast down, chop down, dismount, fall, fell, fetch down, get down, knock over, lay low, level, lower, pull down, pull over, run down, topple, tumble). (various references)

Pig Latin

azeray.(various references)

Portuguese

fazer desaparecer (make away, rase, rid, wipe off, wipe out), esfolar (bark, desquamate, excoriation, flay, fleece, flench, flense, fling, fret, gall, graze, milk, pelting, rase, raw, scale, scalp, skin, skinning, strip, to flay, to skin, to take off the skin), destruir (blast, butcher, consume, defeat, demolish, depredate, destroy, devour, dilapidate, douse, eat crow, end, explode, extinguish, finished, havoc, impaired, kill the goose that lays golden eggs, mine, obliteration, override, overwhelm, poison, puncture, quash, quench, rase, ravage, reave, reive, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, subvert, tear down, to kill, undo, unmake, wipe out, wrack, wreck), demolir (break down, demolish, destroy, dilapidate, level of quality, pull down, pulverize, quash, rase, unbuild, wrack, wreck), arrasar (bulldoze, rase, unbuild), arranhar (clapperclaw, claw, dodder, gall bladder, grazier, rase, scrabble, scrape, scratch, splutter, sputter, strum, thrum, twang). (various references)

Romanian

rade (contuse, efface, erase, grate, obliterate, pare, rasp, scrape, shave), rãzui (abrade, erase, grate, grind, rasp, regrate, scrape, scratch), nimici (annihilate, bear, blight, crush, cut, dash, destroy, do smb. in, exterminate, extinguish, kill, overwhelm, scathe, smash, undo, unmake, wipe out, wither), nãrui (confound, crumble, dash, defeat, destroy, ruin, slip, snuff), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), demola (break down, demolish, destroy, knock down, pull down, take down), dãrâma (annihilate, batter, blight, break down, crack, crumble, crush, demolish, destroy, frustrate, pull down, ruin, shatter, throw down, wreck), şterge (abrade, annex, annihilate, annul, blot out, bunk, cancel, clean, cop, crib, decamp, deface, delete, dim, do a bunk, dry, dull, efface, erase, expunge, filch, guy, make away, make off, mop, obliterate, pack off, pack one's traps, pop off, quit, remove, scratch, shrink away, strike out, sweep, vanish, wipe). (various references)

Russian 

сносить (knock off, pull down, stomach, tear down), разрушать до основания, вычеркивать (black out, blue-pencil, cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, efface, expunge, expurgate, kill, line through, obliterate, score out, scratch, scratch out, strike off, strike out), изглаживать (erase, rase). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rušiti (demolish, desolate, dilapidate, tear down), razvaliti (demolish), sravniti (collate, level, rase, strickle), porušiti (demolish, destroy, level, pull down, rase, subvert, tear down). (various references)

Spanish

arrasar (annihilate, level, obliterate, rase, scorch). (various references)

Swedish

rasera (demolish, destroy, rase). (various references)

Thai

รื้อถอน. (various references)

Turkish

yerle bir etmek (coventrize, flatten, level, raze smth. to the ground), temelinden yıkmak, ortadan kaldırmak (abolish, annihilate, blot out, charm away, clear away, clear off, do away with, extinguish, hide from view, iron out, kill, make away with, put away, put out of sight, remove, suppress, sweep, sweep away, take away). (various references)

Ukranian 

руйнувати вщент (rase), викреслювати (black out, blot out, blue pencil, cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, efface, elide, erase, expunge, line out, obliterate, rase, score out, scratch off, scratch out), зскрібати (rase), подряпати (graze, rase). (various references)

excidant, excidatis, excidebantur, exciderat, excideris, exciderit, exciderunt, excidisti, excidit, exciditur, excisi, exciso, excisum, excisus. (various references)

raser. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "raze": razed, razee, razeed, razeeing, razees, razer, razers, razes. (additional references)

Words ending with "raze": braze, craze, graze, overgraze. (additional references)

Words containing "raze": brazed, brazen, brazened, brazening, brazenly, brazenness, brazennesses, brazens, brazer, brazers, brazes, crazed, crazes, grazeable, grazed, grazer, grazers, grazes, overgrazed, overgrazes, unrazed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Raze" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: araze, arez, arza, Arzew, arzo, Arzu, Draza, Dreze, eraze, fraze, irazu, kraze, Mrazek, Ormaza, praze, raae, rahe, raie, raize, rane, raoe, rasa, rasi, raso, Ratzel, raue, rawe, raxe, raz, raza, Razaq, Razaz, razei, Razek, razel, razem, razen, razer, razey, razi, razn, razo, razon, razoo, razt, Razuki, razw, razza, Razzy, reez, rez, reza, reze, rezen, rezm, Rezzag, Rezzak, Riez, ritze, riza, rize, Rizq, Rizza, Rnaase, Rnaseh, Rnazol, Rnzaf, Roazen, roza, roze, rozen, rozi, ruze, ruzi, Rwaje, Ryazan, rzag, tazze, traze, urase. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: are, ear, era.

-2 letters: ae, ar, er, re.

+1 letter: azure, braze, craze, gazer, graze, hazer, mazer, razed, razee, razer, razes, warez, zaire, zebra.

+2 letters: azerty, azures, bezoar, blazer, braize, brazed, brazen, brazer, brazes, crazed, crazes, ersatz, gazers, glazer, grazed, grazer, grazes, hazers, hazier, jazzer, lazier, mazers, mazier, panzer, patzer, razeed, razees, razers, razzed, razzes, zaffer, zaffre, zaires, zander, zanier, zapper, zareba, zebras.

+3 letters: apprize, arabize, azurite, bezoars, bizarre, blazers, braizes, brazens, brazers, brazier, crazier, crazies, dazzler, frazzle, gauzier, glazers, glazier, grazers, grazier, jazzers, jazzier, lazaret, panzers, patzers, razored, realize, reglaze, trapeze, unrazed, waltzer, zaffers, zaffres, zanders, zappers, zappier, zarebas, zareeba, zebraic, zebrass, zedoary, zingare.

+4 letters: amortize, analyzer, aphorize, apprized, apprizer, apprizes, arabized, arabizes, arborize, archaize, atomizer, atrazine, azurites, baptizer, bizarres, blazoner, brazened, brazenly, braziers, calorize, craziest, credenza, curarize, czarevna, dazzlers, dialyzer, emblazer, ersatzes, faradize, frazzled, frazzles, gazumper, glaziers, glaziery, graecize, grazable, graziers, hazarded, hebraize, jarovize, laterize, lazarets, lazurite, moralize, notarize, organize, overzeal, paralyze, pizzeria, polarize, quartzes, quatorze, queazier, racemize, razeeing, realized, realizer, realizes, reglazed, reglazes, rendzina, romanize, ruralize, satirize, sleazier, snazzier, solarize, stargaze, suzerain, terrazzo, trapezes, trapezia, trapezii, triazine, triazole, tristeza, tzarevna, urbanize, valorize, vaporize, velarize, vizarded, vizirate, waltzers, yahrzeit, zaratite, zareebas, zarzuela, zealotry, zemindar, zoolater.

+5 letters: advertize, amortized, amortizes, analyzers, aphorized, aphorizes, appetizer, apprizers, arabicize, arborized, arborizes, archaized, archaizes, aromatize, atomizers, atrazines, authorize, azeotrope, bacterize, baptizers, barbarize, bizarrely, blazoners, brazening, breezeway, brutalize, calorized, calorizes, carbazole, carbonize, carburize, cartelize, catalyzer, cauterize, cicatrize, craziness, crazyweed, credenzas, cruzadoes, curarized, curarizes, czardases, czarevnas, dialyzers, dramatize, emblazers, equalizer, factorize, faradized, faradizes, formalize, gazetteer, gazumpers, germanize, gigahertz, glamorize, graecized, graecizes, grazeable, harmonize, hebraized, hebraizes, humanizer, hydrazide, hydrazine, idealizer, jargonize, jarovized, jarovizes, laterized, laterizes, lazarette, lazaretto, lazurites, legalizer, linearize, marbleize, martyrize, maximizer, megahertz, moralized, moralizer, moralizes, narcotize, normalize, notarized, notarizes, organized, organizer, organizes, organzine, ostracize, overglaze, overgraze, overzeals, paganizer, paralyzed, paralyzer, paralyzes, patronize, pauperize, pearlized, pizzerias, pluralize, polarized, polarizer, polarizes, privatize, quantizer, quartzite, quartzose, quatorzes, racemized, racemizes, randomize, realizers, realizing, reanalyze, rebaptize, reglazing, rendzinas, rheumatiz, ritualize, romanized, romanizes, ruralized, ruralizes, satirized, satirizes, schnauzer, serialize, solarized, solarizes, stargazed, stargazer, stargazes, summarize, suzerains, terrazzos, totalizer, trapezist, trapezium, trapezius, trapezoid, triazines, triazoles, tristezas, tyrannize, tzarevnas, urbanized, urbanizes, valorized, valorizes, vaporized, vaporizer, vaporizes, varisized, velarized, velarizes, verbalize, vernalize, vizierate, vizierial, vizirates, vocalizer, vulgarize, waterzooi, womanizer, yahrzeits, zaratites, zarzuelas, zebrasses, zebrawood, zedoaries, zemindars, zemindary, zoolaters.

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