raze

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: rāz, IPA^(key): /ɹeɪz/

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• Homophones: raise, rase, rays
• Rhymes: -eɪz

Borrowed from Old French raser, from Latin rāsus (“scraped, shaved”), perfect passive participle of rādō (“scrape, shave”).

raze (third-person singular simple present razes, present participle razing, simple past and past participle razed)

1. (transitive) To demolish; to level to the ground.
   • 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian‎, London:

     Just as significant in the long term, Chelsea were also granted permission this season for their new on-site mega-stadium, a 60,000-seat upgrade that will mean the current Stamford Bridge is razed and replaced by something that looks like a vast alien space yurt made of giant Martian redwood stems.

2. (transitive) To scrape as if with a razor.

• See also Thesaurus:destroy

raze

1. Obsolete spelling of race (rhizome of ginger).

raze (plural razes)

1. A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through.

• raze (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Azer., Ezra, Reza

raze

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of razen

• Ezra

Uncertain; possibly of South Slavic or substrate origin. Compare Slovene raca, Romanian rață.

raze f (plural razis)

1. duck

Compare Italian razza.

raze f (plural razis)

1. race
2. breed
3. strain