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Answer : RAZE
raze, rase, razed, razes, razing, unrazed – v
to tear down or demolish
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
SENTENCE EXAMPLES
“an entire city block razed by a terrible fire”
“the developer razed the old school building and built a high-rise condominium complex”
“raze an old building”
ETYMOLOGY
raze (v.)
1540s, “completely destroy,” an alteration of racen “pull or knock down” (a building or town), from earlier rasen (14c.), etymologically “to scratch, slash, scrape, erase,” from Old French raser “to scrape, shave,” from Medieval Latin rasare, frequentative of Latin radere (past participle rasus) “to scrape, shave.” This has cognates in Welsh rhathu, Breton rahein “to scrape, shave.” Watkins says it is “possibly” from an extended form of the PIE root *red- “to scrape, scratch, gnaw.” But de Vaan writes, “Since this word family is only found in Italo-Celtic, a PIE origin is uncertain.” From 1560s as “shave off, remove by scraping,” also “cut or wound slightly, graze.”
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