raze
verb (used with object)
to tear down; demolish; level to the ground.
razes
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present tense formof raze (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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
Amy and Danny's energy toward one another trades sweetness and consideration for the type of unhinged passion that razes lives to nothing but ash.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023
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
It razes nine to 15 houses a year.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2018
Two are carriers, one of whom has "a gammon of bacon and two razes of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing Cross;" the other has his panniers full of turkeys.
From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles
