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Subject: raze: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Aug. 23, 2014

raze \reyz\ verb 1. to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings. 2. to shave or scrape off. Quotes They razed the building to the ground, then ran a wooden footbridge over the foundation to the dock, where the boats of the new ferry began to land on July 27. -- T.J. Stiles, The First Tycoon, 2009 Origin Raze comes from the Middle French verb meaning "to shave," raser, a variant on the Latin rādere, "to scrape." It entered English in the late 1300s.

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