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单词 raze
释义
raze
verb[T]
uk
/reɪz/us
/reɪz/
tocompletelydestroyacity,building, etc.:
把（城市、建筑物等）夷为平地；彻底摧毁
Thetownwas razedto thegroundin thebombingraid- not abuildingwasleftstanding.整个城镇在空袭中被夷为平地——没有一座建筑物幸存。
Synonyms
destroy
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Destroying and demolishing
  • annihilate
  • annihilation
  • apocalypse
  • bash
  • bash through (something)
  • be sacrificed on the altar ofsomethingidiom
  • fall in
  • in piecesidiom
  • indestructibility
  • killsomethingoff
  • kill the goose that lays the golden eggidiom
  • sacrifice
  • self-devouring
  • shred
  • sink
  • smash
  • stave
  • stavesomethingin
  • takesomethingout
  • tear
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(Definition ofrazefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

raze| American Dictionary

raze
verb[T]
us
/reɪz/
todestroyabuilding,structure, etc.completely:
Developers razed theoldbuildingson thesiteto make way for newconstruction.
(Definition ofrazefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofraze

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Shopping centres are built in ways that make them easy toraze.
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On orders of the sadrazam, the latter was razed in 1661 and the former in 1674.
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This is a relative notion, however, as there is no solid evidence to suggest that houses were radically destroyed upon abandonment by burning or razing them to the ground.
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In 1944, the city decided to remove the ' ' el ' ' tracks that ran across the bridge and torazethe transport terminals that had stood at either end.
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Observers past and present expressed wonderment at all-night floodlights enabling 200 men and 30 teams of horses to work non-stop razing existing structures while simultaneously excavating for foundations.
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Drought and g razing patch dynamics under different grazing management.
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One only has to think of the slums that we have in this country that ought to be razed to the ground.
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Who can forget the sight of families fleeing for their lives, their homes and villages razed to the ground?
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That amazing example of modernist architecture at the top of an industrial valley was razed to the ground to provide space for a shopping centre.
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Whole villages have been razed to the ground.
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There is obliteration; buildings of all kinds are razed to the ground.
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Their homes have been razed to the ground.
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At least 28 of them ought to be razed to the ground.
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It would have been a tragedy had that smelter been razed to the ground.
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The villagers knew that one of our operations meant the likelihood of their houses being razed.
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