raze > define

verb

• Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
  • usage: "The building was levelled"
  • synonyms: level, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down

• (n.) A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.
• (v.t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
• (v.t.) To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.