Meaning & use
Razing
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Completely destroying or demolishing a building or structure, usually leveling it to the ground.
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The crew spent the morning razing the abandoned warehouse to make way for a new development.
City officials approved razing the fire-damaged block rather than attempting repairs.
A note on using this word
Razing is easy to confuse with its homophone "raising," which has almost the opposite meaning — one tears a structure down, the other puts one up.
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Words with an opposite meaning
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