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To raze a town or a building is to destroy it so completely that almost nothing stands — the picture is shaved flat. News and history writing love the set phrase raze to the ground. It is a formal, heavy verb; you would not say you razed a pile of blocks. Though actually, it does not have to be war. A city can raze an old factory to put up flats. The old French verb raser meant to shave, to , and also to tear down, so the English word kept the ‘make it level’ idea. Careful: raze sounds exactly like raise, which means to lift up — almost the opposite.
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組成From Middle English rasen, from old French raser, to shave, scrape, or tear down. To raze a building is to shave it off the land.
同家族的字
- razorsame old French raser, to shave: a razor shaves hair; raze ‘shaves’ a building off the ground
原始詞典資料18 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
razeverb詞源 1/ɹeɪz/
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To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
- The fortreſſe was raſed and beaten downe to the erthe⸝ whiche had coſt moche the makynge therof: […]
- Theſe are his ſubſtance, ſinevves, armes, and ſtrength, / VVith vvhich he yoaketh your rebellious Neckes, / Razeth your Cities, and ſubuerts your Tovvnes, / And in a moment makes them deſolate.
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To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.
- Yet at the laſt, caſting with my ſelf, that yͤ heat of thy loue might cleane be razed with yͤ coldnes of my letter, I thought it good to commit an inconuenience, that I might preuent a miſchiefe, chuſing rather to cut thée off ſhort by rigour, then to giue thée any iot of hope by ſilence.
- VVithout reſpect of ſex, degree or age. / He raceth all his foes vvith fire and ſvvord.
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To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
- Suppleyng to Fame, I besought her grace, / And that it wolde please her, full tenderly I prayd, / Owt of her bokis Apollo to rase.
- The wound alas happe in some other place, / From whence no toole away the skar can race.
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regionalTo wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze.
- [T]he ſvvorde more mercifull then hee to himſelfe, vvith the ſlipping of the pommel, the point ſvvarued, and razed him but vpon the ſide: […]
- For vvas he not in the neareſt Neighbourhood to Death? And might not the Bullet, that perhaps raſed his Cheek, have as eaſily gone into his Head?
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obsoleteTo alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.
- This indenture is raced all the worlde may ſe it: Ceſte indenture eſt faulcée tout le monde le peult veoyr.
- But I vvill take another order novv, / And race th'eternall Regiſter of time: […]
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obsoleteTo carve (a line, mark, etc.) into something; to incise, to inscribe; also, to carve lines, marks, etc., into (something); to engrave.
- Generally, Barbarous People, that goe Naked, doe not onely paint Themſelues, but they povvnce and raze their Skinne, that the Painting may not be taken forth; And make it into VVorks.
- [Y]ou muſt mark the out-lines of your intended Hinge, […] either vvith Chalk, or elſe raſe upon the Plate vvith the corner of the Cold-Chiſſel, or any other hardned Steel that vvill ſcratch a bright ſtroke upon the Plate: […]
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obsoleteTo remove (something) by scraping; also, to cut or shave (something) off.
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obsoleteTo rub lightly along the surface of (something); brush against, to graze.
- And novv [the Rhine] by this time augmented vvith ſnovv, melted and reſolved into vvater, and raſing as it goes the high bankes vvith their curving reaches, entreth into a round and vaſt lake (vvhich the Rhætians dvvelling thereby, call Brigantia) […]
- Sometimes, his feet raſed the ſurface of the water; and, at others, the ſkylight almoſt flattened his noſe.
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obsoleteTo scrape (something), with or as if with a razor, to remove things from its surface; also, to reduce (something) to small pieces by scraping; to grate.
- And you are a ſoule, ſo vvhite, and ſo chaſte, / A table ſo ſmooth, and ſo nevvly ra'ſte, / As nothing cald foule, / Dare approach vvith a blot, / Or any leaſt ſpot; […]
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obsoleteTo shave (someone or part of their body) with a razor, etc.
- [A] ſharpe worde moued thée, when other whiles a ſworde will not, then a friendly checke killeth thée, when a raſor cannot raſe thée.
- Do you fancy him retir'd that […] conſumes his time trifling amongſt Barbers, razing and ſprucing himſelf, Povvdering, Combing, and ſummoning a Council upon every Hair?
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obsoleteTo cut, scratch, or tear (someone or something) with a sharp object; to lacerate, to slash.
- Buckles and agglettes at vnwares, ſhall race his bowe, a thinge both euill for the fight, ⁊ perillous for freatinge.
- His death did raze hir heart.
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obsoleteTo carve lines, marks, etc., into something.
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obsoleteTo graze or rub lightly along a surface.
- Betwene theſe Ilandes and the continente, he entered into ſoo narowe ſtreyghtes, that he coulde ſcarſely turne backe the ſhippes: And theſe alſo ſo ſhalowe, that the keele of the ſhyps ſumtyme raſed on the ſandes.
- Rádere, […] to raze or go along the ſhore as a ſhip doth, or to flye leuell to the ground as ſome birds do.
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obsoleteTo penetrate through something; to pierce.
- [O]ne Robert Dutch of Ipſvvith, having been ſorely vvounded by a Bullet that raſed to his skull, and then mauled by the Indian Hatchets, left for dead by the Salvages,^([sic – meaning Savages]) and ſtript by them of all but his skin; […]
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obsoleterareOf a horse: to wear down its corner teeth as it ages, losing the black marks in their crevices.
razenoun詞源 1/ɹeɪz/
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obsoleteA slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit.
- And verely the Emperour Nero vvas ſo greatly enamoured vpon one image of Alexander [the Great], that hee commaunded it to be guilded all over: but aftervvards, ſeeing that the more coſt vvas beſtovved upon it by laying on gold, the leſſe vvas the art ſeene of the firſt vvorkman [Lysippos], ſo that it loſt all the beautie and grace that it had by that means, he cauſed the gold to be taken off againe: and verely, the ſaid image thus unguilded as it vvas, ſeemed farre more precious than it vvas vvhiles it ſtood ſo enriched vvith gold, notvvithſtanding all the hackes, cuts, gaſhes, and raſes all over the bodie vvherein the gold did ſticke, remained ſtill, vvhich in ſome ſort might disfigure it.
- [I]f you make tvvo razes on each ſide [of the horse's hoof], it ſhall bee ſo much the better, and inlarge the hoofe the more; […]
razenoun詞源 3/ɹeɪz/
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A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through.
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