Definition:
To demolish, annihilate, destroy, or tear down a construct.
Pronunciation:
raze
Also Known As:
bulldoze, flatten, destroy
Common Misspellings:
raise
Examples:
"If I had been shut up in any place to pine and suffer, I should always hate that place and wish to burn it down, or raze it to the ground." Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
"And for all these reasons they will be unwilling to waste their lands and raze their houses; their enmity to them will only last until the many innocent sufferers have compelled the guilty few to give satisfaction?" Plato, The Republic
