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Pronunciation: [ɹˈe͡ɪzd] (IPA)

Razed means to completely destroy or demolish something. Some synonyms for raze include annihilate, demolish, level, obliterate, and flatten. Other related words that can be used in place of raze include dismantle, tear down, pulverize, wreck, and extinguish. These words all suggest something that has been completely destroyed or removed, leaving nothing behind. Razing is often used in reference to buildings or structures, but it can also be used in a metaphorical sense to describe the complete destruction of a system or idea. Whatever the context, the word raze conveys a sense of utter devastation and finality.
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What are the opposite words for razed?

Razed is a term that refers to the complete destruction of a building or structure. The antonyms for razed are words that describe opposite actions. One such antonym is "erected," which means to build or construct a structure. Another antonym is "preserved," which means to protect or maintain something in its original condition. "Restored" is also an antonym, which means to return something to its original state after damage or destruction. Other antonyms for razed could include terms like "renovated," "rebuilt," or "reconstructed." By using antonyms, we can better understand the full spectrum of actions that can be taken in relation to a building or structure.

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Usage examples for Razed

The progress of late boyhood was razed in a brief year or two.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
The rest of the original building was either razed already or else unfit to stand.
"Peccavi"
E. W. Hornung
A great part of the monastic buildings were levelled to the ground; and the fortifications which had been so strangely affixed to them were also razed: meanwhile the monks suffered grievously from the contending parties: their sacristy was plundered; their treasury emptied; and they were themselves exposed to a variety of personal hardships.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner

Famous quotes with Razed

  • Tinkling sounds came from outside, of hammering and chiselling, as labourers worked like bees, and seven- or eight-storeyed buildings rose in the place of ancestral mansions that had been razed cruelly to the ground, climbing up like ladders through screens of dust. An old mansion opposite the veranda had been repainted white, to its last banister and pillar, so that it looked like a set of new teeth. ... In another sphere altogether, birds took off from a tree or parapet, or the roof of some rich Marwari’s house, startling and speckling the neutral sky. Not a moment was still or like another moment. In a window in a servants’ outhouse attached to a mansion – both the master’s house and the servants’ lost in a bond now anachronistic and buried – a light shone even at this time of the day, beacon of winter.
    Amit Chaudhuri
  • You assumed that no other guarantees than those you asked were possible, and you determined deliberately, in cold anger, to starve out one third of the population of the city, to break the manhood of the men by the sight of the suffering of their wives and the hunger of their children. We read in the Dark Ages of the rack and thumb screw. But these iniquities were hidden and concealed from the knowledge of men in dungeons and torture chambers. Even in the Dark Ages, humanity could not endure the sight of such suffering, and it learnt of such misuse of power by slow degrees, through rumour, and when it was certain it razed its Bastilles to their foundations. It remained for the twentieth century and the capital city of Ireland to see an oligarchy of four hundred masters deciding openly upon starving one hundred thousand people, and refusing to consider any solution except that fixed by their pride. You, masters, asked men to do that which masters of labour in any other city in these islands had not dared to do. You insolently demanded of those men who were members of a trade union that they should resign from that union; and from those who were not members, you insisted on a vow that they would never join it.
    George William Russell

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