Raze : (건물·도시 등을 아무 것도 안 남도록) 완전히 파괴하다, 휩쓸어 버리다, 없애다, 파내다, 긁어내다, 깎아내다
Raze to the Ground : (건물·도시 등을 아무 것도 안 남도록) 완전히 파괴하다, 휩쓸어 버리다
1)
If you raze a building, you completely destroy it
After the fire, what was left of the building was razed to the ground
the city was razed to the ground during the bombing
to destroy completely, particularly a building, a town or some sort of settlement
to flatten
to level
the camp was razed by bulldozers
to be demolished
to be pulled down
to be torn down
to get rid of something
to demolish
to erase
to obliterate
to knock down
to pulverize
2)
to scrape, to cut, to shave off
to skim, to cut over a surface using a razor
but this use is much more unusual
I razed my hair off, the skin of the pork before i cooked it
3)
you can use this metaphorically but is less common
we wish to raze the memory of this from our collective thought
to erase, to scrape it out
his reputation was razed to the ground by the scandal
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