Synonyms for raze
reɪzraze

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1. raze

   A building, monument, or other structure is demolished when reduced to a shapeless mass; it is razed when leveled with the ground; it is destroyed when its structural unity is gone, whether or not its component parts remain. An edifice is destroyed by fire or earthquake; it is demolished by bombardment; it is ruined when, by violence or neglect, it has become unfit for human habitation. Compare ABOLISH; BREAK.

   Synonyms:
   demolish, destroy, overthrow, overturn, ruin

   Antonyms:
   build, construct, create, make, repair, restore

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1. raze

   Synonyms:
   demolish, level, prostrate, overthrow, dismantle, subvert, reduce, ruin, destroy, debase

   Antonyms:
   raise, erect, build, rear, repair, restore

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1. level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull downverb

   tear down so as to make flat with the ground

   "The building was levelled"

   Synonyms:
   demean, note, rase, bring down, let down, level off, disgrace, even out, take down, disassemble, degrade, strip, put down, down, lower, dismantle, tear down, take apart, push down, knock down, level, pull down, charge, break up, break apart, get down, even, point, flush, cut down

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1. razeverb

   Synonyms:
   overthrow, demolish, subvert, destroy, ruin

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1. razeverb

   Synonyms:
   erase, efface, rase, overthrow, subvert, demolish

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1. List of paraphrases for "raze":

   shave, shave-a, bulldoze

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How to use raze in a sentence?

1. Phelim Kine:

   That's staggering, that's the equivalent of telling a United States citizen that an American corporation is going to raze Yosemite, or in the UK that they'll pave the Lake District. The environmental impacts are almost incalculable.