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What (who) is Raze - definition

SHIP TYPE

Razé; Razeed; Razée; Razéed; Razee frigate; Razée frigate

raze

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Razed; Raze (disambiguation)

v. (D; tr.) to raze to (to raze a building to the ground)

raze

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Razed; Raze (disambiguation)

(also rase)

¦ verb tear down and destroy (a building, town, etc.): villages were razed to the ground.

Origin

ME (in the sense 'scratch, incise'): from OFr. raser 'shave closely', from L. ras-, radere 'scrape'.

Raze

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Razed; Raze (disambiguation)

·noun A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the ·same·as race, a root.

II. Raze ·vt To Erase; to Efface; to Obliterate.

III. Raze ·vt To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to Overthrow; to Destroy; to Demolish.

Wikipedia

Razee

A razee or razée is a sailing ship that has been cut down (razeed) to reduce the number of decks. The word is derived from the French vaisseau rasé, meaning a razed (in the sense of shaved down) ship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razee

Examples of use of Raze

1. Excavators and cranes have started to raze buildings.

2. Yosef appealed against having to raze buildings he‘d erected.

3. The government‘s decision to raze the houses stands.

4. The United States, he alleged, wanted to kill Afghan children and raze their houses once again.

5. "I retract it, of course, when I said, ‘One is going to raze Tehran,‘" he said.