raze
/reɪz/verb
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धराशायी करना, ढहा देना, मिट्टी में मिला देना
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Asked in previous papers
as antonym
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[T] ~ sth (to the ground) usually passive
to completely destroy a building, town
धराशायी करना, ढहा देना, मिट्टी में मिला देना
- The village was razed to the ground.
- Bulldozers razed the old market to make way for a metro station.
- The old fort was razed during the war and never rebuilt.
+ 2 more examples
- Fire razed the whole street within an hour.
- The council plans to raze the empty factory and build a park.
≈Synonyms and antonyms
?Which word?
Homophone, asked very often: raze (destroy completely) and raise (lift up) and rays (beams of light) are pronounced /reɪz/; they have opposite meanings.
Homophone में यह बहुत पूछा जाता है: raze (पूरी तरह नष्ट करना), raise (ऊपर उठाना) और rays (प्रकाश की किरणें) सबकी pronunciation /reɪz/ है; इनके अर्थ विपरीत हैं।
Keep the destroy words together: raze (destroy a building or town completely), demolish (pull down), level, flatten, obliterate (destroy all signs of).
नष्ट करने के शब्द साथ याद रखिए: raze (इमारत या शहर पूरी तरह नष्ट), demolish (गिराना), level, flatten, obliterate (सारे निशान मिटाना)।
“Collocations, idioms and sayings
Raze to the ground.
Collocation 'raze to the ground' का मतलब है किसी इमारत या शहर को पूरी तरह तबाह कर देना।