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Verb: rase  reyz
Usage: archaic
  1. 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

Sounds like: raise, ray

Derived forms: rased, rases, rasing

See also: draw

Type of: destroy, destruct, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], uncreate [literary]

Encyclopedia: Rase