Usually means: Tear down, demolish completely, destroy.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. raze: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. raze: Merriam-Webster
  3. raze: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. raze: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. raze: Collins English Dictionary
  6. raze: Vocabulary.com
  7. Raze, raze: Wordnik
  8. raze: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. raze: Wiktionary
  10. raze: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. raze (rase): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. raze: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Raze, raze: Dictionary.com
  14. raze: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. raze: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Raze (Christian pop group), Raze (Underworld), Raze (film), Raze (group), Raze (house-music group), Raze (house music group), Raze (magazine), Raze: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Raze: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. raze: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. raze: Rhymezone
  20. raze: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. raze: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. raze: FreeDictionary.org
  23. raze: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. raze: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. raze: Legal dictionary

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  1. raze: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. raze: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. raze: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To demolish; to level to the ground.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy; to strike out of existence; to obliterate.
verb:  (transitive) To scrape as if with a razor.
noun:  A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through.
noun:  Obsolete spelling of race (rhizome of ginger). [A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.]

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