raze
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Synonyms & Antonyms for raze
Synonyms
annihilate, cream, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, extinguish, nuke, pull down, pulverize, rub out, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, total, vaporize, waste, wrack, wreck
Antonyms
build, construct, erect, put up, raise, rear, set up
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The wing is built where a Sears store stood until it was closed in March 2018 and razed to make way for new entertainment venues. — Paul Gores, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "So long, Sears. WhirlyBall and Movie Tavern are about to debut at Brookfield Square," 4 Sep. 2019 One plan largely preserves the George C. Page Museum, another lays another story on top, while the last razes the museum and relocates the tar pits’ famous mammoth statues to a new museum building. — Los Angeles Times, "Essential Arts: How Ernie Barnes’ painting of a jubilant nightclub became a museum draw," 31 Aug. 2019 Those trends also imply that ancient humans may have been influencing climate by raising livestock and razing forests to create croplands. — Mohi Kumar, Science | AAAS, "Ancient farmers irreversibly altered Earth’s face by 3000 years ago," 30 Aug. 2019 The discoveries were made during an excavation at the site of the Great Synagogue of Vilna (Vilnius), which was razed during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania in World War II. — Fox News, "Mysterious one-legged skeleton discovered in Russia may be Napoleon’s favorite general," 29 Aug. 2019 As more developers raze starter homes to build extravagant monster homes in Redwood City, the City Council has escalated its approach to protecting the city’s landscape and its diversity. — Maggie Angst, The Mercury News, "Redwood City tries to stop developers building ‘monster homes’ for maximum profit," 27 Aug. 2019 Bili, truly an immigrant of our globalized time, can’t make rent in New York, and discovers on her return to China that her childhood residence, like so many others in China’s rapacious housing development drive, was razed. — Zoë Hu, The New Republic, "Crazy Sad Asians," 27 Aug. 2019 Analysis of satellite imagery by the International Cyber Policy Center at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute found that nearly 60 Rohingya settlements were razed last year, well after the violence peaked in 2017. — New York Times, "Massacred at Home, in Misery Abroad, 730,000 Rohingya Are Mired in Hopelessness," 22 Aug. 2019 The delays have come once the Bost Building was razed to make room for the hotel. — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, "Construction gears up for downtown Huntsville hotel," 22 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'raze.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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