razes
- present tense form of raze (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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"Destructive human activities, like seafloor dredging, which razes entire marine communities, have turned seafloors into structurally simplified habitats with little settlement substrata or localised adult oysters to seed recovery," says Dr McAfee.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2024
Today, 73 percent of Arlington’s residentially zoned land is single-family, meaning that if a developer razes a house, it may be replaced only with another single-family house.
From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023
Detroit Blight Busters builds and renovates homes, but also razes homes seen as blights on their neighborhoods.
From Salon • Sep. 3, 2021
One plan largely preserves the George C. Page Museum, another lays another story on top, while the last razes the museum and relocates the tar pits’ famous mammoth statues to a new museum building.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2019
That casts down, and brings down all superstructures, razes out all vain confidence to the very foundation, and then begins to build on a solid ground.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
