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Raze 1100 Words You Need Week 14 Day 2

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Raze 1100 Words You Need

Raze 1100 Words You Need

/reɪz/ (verb)

to destroy a building or place completely, demolish, tear down, annihilate, flatten, ruin, wreck, lay waste, knock down, devastate:

By 4 p.m. Monday, the entire building was razed to the ground and will hopefully be cleaned up entirely by the end of the week.

Source: https://globalnews.ca/

The City purchased the building in October 2018 for less than $400 as part of a foreclosure process with the intent to raze the deteriorated building and advocate for future redevelopment.

Source: http://paducahky.gov/

The former Hoover building is currently being used by Tate High School while their building is being expanded. The school district originally wanted to raze the building to have more land for City High School.

Source: https://www.1630kcjj.com/

Antonyms: build, construct

Noun: razer

Farsi: ویران کردن

French: détruire

Urdu: تباہ


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