Definition of RAZE

Examples of raze in a Sentence

an entire city block razed by a terrible fire the developer razed the old school building and built a high-rise condominium complex

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Parrish expresses his sympathetic view of the Bolsheviks and his feelings about razing a village in his war diary, a copy of which is housed in the Bentley collection. — WSJ, "Archangel Endnotes," 9 Nov. 2018 Some hold out hope that Israel might be deterred by an inevitable international outcry over razing the community. — Fox News, "Doomed Palestinian village turns to Europe as last hope," 16 Sep. 2018 The Nazis then razed the city and expelled some 500,000 remaining residents, sending some to the Auschwitz death camp. — Monika Scislowska, Fox News, "Poland honors fighters, victims of Warsaw's 1944 revolt," 1 Aug. 2018 Separately, rights groups have documented more than 300 Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine that were razed by fire since last August. — Hannah Beech And Saw Nang, New York Times, "Myanmar Rejects U.N. Findings: ‘No Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide in Our Country’," 14 Mar. 2018 That office was in one of the buildings that was razed to make room for the Convention Center, which opened in 1993. — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, "David Peltan, 97, Philly optometrist who loved history," 5 Mar. 2018 In the weeks after the battle, Constantine ordered the New Fort razed and gave the land to the Church. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Archaeologists map centuries of history beneath world’s oldest cathedral," 30 Nov. 2018 But whole sections were razed in the same period, rendering it a virtual ghost town. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "If Beale Street Could Talk adapts James Baldwin’s novel into a haunting, gorgeous film," 18 Sep. 2018 The visitor's center will be razed and rebuilt at a new location, giving downtown onlookers a direct view of the temple. — Lily Altavena, azcentral, "Mesa Mormon Temple renovation plans revealed: 5 things to know," 11 May 2018

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