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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of raze.

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Examples

  • Anyone who resides in New York knows that the city lives to fall in and out of love; it prematurely glorifies and razes its authors, designers, politicians and foremost its athletes.

    Some Lin-iment for the NBA Jason Gay 2012

  • All that remains is a curling column of smoke reaching into the sky after the casting of a catastrophic spell that razes the once great city to nothing but ruin and dust.

    2010 February 19 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Until China, for example, concludes that it will have to act like a maritime power in a far away place after all, kills the pirates and razes their bases, hauls away their women as concubines and enslaves their children in IPad factories, and sows antipersonnel land mines in their fields – but then offers them a deal on their undersea oil and mineral rights.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » How to Be a Hegemon 2010

  • All that remains is a curling column of smoke reaching into the sky after the casting of a catastrophic spell that razes the once great city to nothing but ruin and dust.

    “Lamentation” by Ken Scholes (Tor, 2009) « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Until China, for example, concludes that it will have to act like a maritime power in a far away place after all, kills the pirates and razes their bases, hauls away their women as concubines and enslaves their children in IPad factories, and sows antipersonnel land mines in their fields – but then offers them a deal on their undersea oil and mineral rights.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » How to Be a Hegemon 2010

  • Twitch called the film “a genre mash of science fiction and a young parenting drama,” and said “The center-piece of the picture, the combination of ‘girl-in-suit,’ make-up, and Greg Nicotero prosthetics takes the uncanny valley, razes it to the ground and rebuilds its central creature into something simply wonderful” but warns that “fans of balls out monster movies will be a bit baffled by the films deliberate pacing.”

    Peter’s 18 Most Anticipated Films of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival | /Film 2010

  • His crew of Wyoming artists, including Santa Fean transplant Pat Kikut, tend toward kitsch as a tool in their arsenal that razes overly romanticized views of the West -- a West they know from daily life.

    ArtScene: The Southwest's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2010

  • His crew of Wyoming artists, including Santa Fean transplant Pat Kikut, tend toward kitsch as a tool in their arsenal that razes overly romanticized views of the West -- a West they know from daily life.

    ArtScene: The Southwest's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2010

  • “The center-piece of the picture, the combination of ‘girl-in-suit,’ make-up, and Greg Nicotero prosthetics takes the uncanny valley, razes it to the ground and rebuilds its central creature into something simply wonderful”

    First Clip and Buzz for Guillermo Del Toro-Produced Creature Feature Splice | /Film 2009

  • Twitch called the film “a genre mash of science fiction and a young parenting drama,” and said “The center-piece of the picture, the combination of ‘girl-in-suit,’ make-up, and Greg Nicotero prosthetics takes the uncanny valley, razes it to the ground and rebuilds its central creature into something simply wonderful” but warns that “fans of balls out monster movies will be a bit baffled by the films deliberate pacing.”

    First Clip and Buzz for Guillermo Del Toro-Produced Creature Feature Splice | /Film 2009

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