raze
verb
[ reɪz ]
• completely destroy (a building, town, or other settlement).
• "villages were razed to the ground"
Similar:
destroy,
demolish,
raze to the ground,
tear down,
pull down,
knock down,
knock to pieces,
level,
flatten,
bulldoze,
fell,
wipe out,
lay waste,
ruin,
wreck,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘scratch, incise’): from Old French raser ‘shave closely’, from Latin ras- ‘scraped’, from the verb radere .
