Definition of "razes" [razes]

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

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• "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."
• "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."
• "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."