| \reyz\ | verb
1. to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
2. to shave or scrape off. | | Quotes | They razed the building to the ground, then ran a wooden footbridge over the foundation to the dock, where the boats of the new ferry began to land on July 27.
-- T.J. Stiles, The First Tycoon, 2009 | | Origin | | Raze comes from the Middle French verb meaning "to shave," raser, a variant on the Latin rādere, "to scrape." It entered English in the late 1300s. | |
