Synonyms of razing

razing

verb

present participle of raze

1

as in destroying

to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of

an entire city block razed by a terrible fire

Synonyms & Similar Words

• destroying
• demolishing
• ruining
• wrecking
• shattering
• devastating
• smashing
• overcoming
• damaging
• wasting
• extinguishing
• pulverizing
• annihilating
• eroding
• decimating
• marring
• ravaging
• vaporizing
• dismantling
• killing
• totaling
• nuking
• crushing
• crippling
• creaming
• removing
• tearing down
• breaking
• pulling down
• defeating
• wracking
• doing in
• blasting
• desolating
• injuring
• subduing
• conquering
• dynamiting
• trimming
• licking
• mutilating
• disintegrating
• rubbing out
• deteriorating
• defacing
• dissolving
• spoiling
• mastering
• eradicating
• whipping
• prevailing (over)
• harming
• surmounting
• disfiguring
• clobbering
• impairing
• routing
• winning (against)
• obliterating
• gutting
• slaughtering
• vandalizing
• plundering
• scouring
• sacking
• thrashing
• wearing (away)
• beating
• mangling
• assassinating
• looting
• exterminating
• undoing
• disassembling
• triumphing (over)
• murdering
• besting
• vitiating
• pillaging
• liquidating
• sweeping (away)
• walloping
• despoiling
• expunging
• extirpating
• executing
• trampling
• massacring
• effacing
• blowing up
• trashing
• scotching
• slaying
• trouncing
• washing out
• wiping out
• unbuilding
• dilapidating
• taking down
• overmatching
• drubbing
• dispatching
• butchering
• overbearing
• unmaking
• stamping (out)
• cutting down
• rooting (out)
• felling
• blotting out
• zapping
• snuffing (out)
• taking out
• killing off
• mowing (down)
• skunking
• havocking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• building
• constructing
• erecting
• raising
• repairing
• creating
• rearing
• fixing
• setting up
• producing
• putting up
• making
• forming
• establishing
• shaping
• inventing
• assembling
• manufacturing
• organizing
• revamping
• framing
• forging
• preserving
• patching
• protecting
• fashioning
• reconditioning
• molding
• instituting
• founding
• constituting
• fabricating
• saving
• mending
• rebuilding
• bringing about
• restoring
• reconstructing
• doctoring
• conserving
• remodeling
• renovating
• fathering

2

as in demolishing

to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to pieces

the developer razed the old school building and built a high-rise condominium complex

Synonyms & Similar Words

• demolishing
• destroying
• unbuilding
• leveling
• tearing down
• pulling down
• dynamiting
• obliterating
• wrecking
• eradicating
• overturning
• ravaging
• flattening
• decimating
• abolishing
• pulverizing
• finishing
• smashing
• extirpating
• annihilating
• ruining
• devouring
• dissolving
• wasting
• wiping out
• devastating
• totaling
• blowing up
• crushing
• unmaking
• doing in
• scourging
• cracking up
• dashing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• building
• constructing
• erecting
• raising
• rebuilding
• restoring
• creating
• renewing
• making
• forming
• putting up
• shaping
• manufacturing
• renovating
• forging
• fashioning
• fabricating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of razing

By the late 1980s, McAuley’s days clearly were numbered, as the DuPage County Airport Authority, in the midst of a major expansion, began buying and razing most of the remaining homes in the McAuley district. — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026

Co-founder Ray Bobbitt, a local face of the project, has floated the idea of razing the former A’s ballpark and replacing it with a smaller stadium, plus a hotel, retail storefronts and nightlife venues, in addition to housing. — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 13 July 2026

In recent weeks, Lebanon proved to be a particularly sensitive flashpoint, with Israel continuing attacks in southern Lebanon and its ground troops razing towns and villages. — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026

The historic designation effectively saved the building from demolition, but only for three years, at which point the brothers were no longer bound by any restrictions on razing the home to the ground. — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2026

Mertensotto Field While the new municipal campus is at the same site as the current city hall building, new construction would include razing the baseball field known as Mertensotto Field at Civic Center Park. — Elliot Mann, Twin Cities, 25 May 2026

Israel is razing and looting homes and has vowed to prevent hundreds of thousands of residents, predominantly Shiites, though also members of other religious communities, from returning. — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026

And what a voice — what an instrument of razing and of raising. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 May 2026

In June 2024, it was officially named a cultural-historic landmark, preventing Milstein and Bank from razing it. — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 27 Apr. 2026