Antonyms for raze

Grammar : Verb

Spell : reyz

Phonetic Transcription : reɪz

Definition of raze

Origin : 1540s, alteration of racen "pull or knock down" (a building or town), from earlier rasen (14c.) "to scratch, slash, scrape, erase," from Old French raser "to scrape, shave" (see rase). Related: Razed; razing.

verb flatten, knock down; wipe out

Example sentences :

What, could it be true that they were going to fight again, were going to burn and raze Sedan!
Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola

Here an awful blast swept the house, as if to raze it to its foundations.
Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan

There were 2,000 houses to raze and new structures to be built.
Extract from : « The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado » by Logan Marshall

The only absolutely safe plan is to raze them from the earth.
Extract from : « Semiramis and Other Plays » by Olive Tilford Dargan

Then the army was set to work, to raze the city to the ground.
Extract from : « For the Temple » by G. A. Henty

Say, after the war, I'm going there, and I'm just going to raze that place to the ground.
Extract from : « Wounds in the rain » by Stephen Crane

They shall evacuate Epidaurus, and raze the fortification there.
Extract from : « The History of the Peloponnesian War » by Thucydides

But as well might they have attempted to raze the foundations of the globe itself.
Extract from : « Matilda Montgomerie » by Major (John) Richardson

There was nothing to be done but to raze them to the ground.
Extract from : « The Life of Mohammad » by Etienne Dinet

And it will be well, I trow, to raze the fort to the ground.
Extract from : « With Drake on the Spanish Main » by Herbert Strang

Synonyms for raze

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