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单词 to raze to the ground
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to raze to the ground
a. transitive. To tear down, demolish, or level (a building, town, etc.). Formerly occasionally with †up. In later use esp. in to raze to the ground.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break down, demolish, or ruin
spillc950
fellOE
to cast downc1230
destroy1297
to turn up?c1335
to throw down1340
to ding downc1380
to break downa1382
subverta1382
underturn1382
to take downc1384
falla1400
to make (a building, etc.) plain (with the earth)a1400
voida1400
brittenc1400
to burst downc1440
to pull downc1450
pluck1481
tumble1487
wreck1510
defacea1513
confound1523
raze1523
arase1530
to beat downc1540
ruinate1548
demolish1560
plane1562
to shovel down1563
race?1567
ruin1585
rape1597
unwall1598
to bluster down16..
raise1603
level1614
debolish1615
unbuilda1616
to make smooth work of1616
slight1640
to knock down1776
squabash1822
collapse1883
to turn over1897
mash1924
rubble1945
to take apart1978
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1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. C.xcviiv/1 The fortresse was rased and beaten downe to the erthe.
1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 168 And thervpon the Uenetians toke, sacked and rased their houses to the earth.
1574 J. Studley tr. J. Bale Pageant of Popes f. 114v He assaulted & wan diuers townes, some he sacked and razed to the grounde, some he burnt with fier.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cxxxvii. 7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem; who sayd, rase it, rase it: euen to the foundation thereof. View more context for this quotation
1659 Mercurius Politicus No. 592. 822 His Goods also have been confiscated, his house razed to the ground.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 302 They..rased the noblest Structures in the Land, to sell the Materials.
1762 T. Flloyd tr. N. L. Dufresnoy Chronological Tables II. 66 The Goths took, and rased the city of Milan.
1791 J. West Edmund Ironside ii. iii, in Misc. Poems 156 Your sacred groves shall never be invaded. No ruffian hand shall rase your walls.
1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands vi. 158 Ibrahim Pasha..rased their houses to the ground.
1901 F. W. Rolfe Chron. House Borgia 89 He and his brother were forced to look on while his house was rased to the ground.
1961 E. Fitzgerald tr. S. Labin Anthill vi. 97 The Chinese Communist Government has ordered that the tombs..shall be rased and the dead collectivised by being transferred to public cemeteries.
1991 H. Kamen Spain, 1469–1714 iii. 174 2,500 inhabitants, including women and children, were slaughtered, the town was rased and salt poured over it.
β. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Civ I saw Troye fall..Neptunus town clene razed from the soil.1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xvii. 302 A certain Sirian..pulled downe castles, razed vp townes, & destroied euery where.1633 G. Herbert Sacrifice in Temple xvii Some said, that I the Temple to the floore In three dayes raz'd.1690 N. Lee Massacre of Paris v. iv, 50 The Hostel de Chastillon Be raz'd for ever.1767 G. Lyttelton Hist. Henry II II. 339 The enemy..entered triumphant into Hereford, spoiled and fired the city, razed the walls to the ground [etc.].1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) I. xxiv. 690 The fortifications were razed to the ground.1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. iii. ii. 377 If it were refused, the Aztecs would raze their cities to their foundations.1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 40 Having razed Troy with her strong defences I should see my home again.1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 61/1 In 1647 the parliamentarian troops razed the castle to the ground.1962 A. MacLean Satan Bug vi. 91 That stronghold of the Antichrist must be utterly razed so that no stone be left standing.2006 S. Ings Weight of Numbers 36 The garage and the tea shop were gone, razed, a greenfield Tesco in their place.
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