Verb: rase reyz
Usage: archaic
Usage: archaic
- Destroy or completely remove a building or structure
"When a force occupies an enemy fortress, it may rase the fortifications";
- level, raze, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down, flatten, demolish, knock down
Derived forms: rased, rases, rasing
See also: draw
Type of: destroy, destruct, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], uncreate [literary]
Encyclopedia: Rase