Thesaurus / raze
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Experts say this year is on track to be as bad as 2020, when fires razed more than 19 million acres of the world’s largest tropical forest.
FIRES IN THE AMAZON ARE OUT OF CONTROL. AGAIN.BENJI JONESAUGUST 27, 2021VOXIn June, a normally temperate village in western Canada briefly became one of the hottest places on earth and before 90% of its buildings were razed by a wildfire.
HOW DEADLY FLOODING IN GERMANY AND BELGIUM EXPOSED EUROPE'S CLIMATE CHANGE HUBRISCIARA NUGENTJULY 19, 2021TIMEShe set fire to large swathes of land, razed villages and towns, and melted precious metals.
BADASS ROYAL WOMEN YOU NEED TO KNOWSEAN CULLIGANJULY 1, 2021OZYApartment buildings were razed because, according to Israelis, some units were housing Palestinian weaponry.
CALLS FOR JUSTICE IN THE U.S. CREATE A DILEMMA FOR PRO-ISRAEL POLICIESPHILIP ELLIOTTMAY 21, 2021TIMEBut, at the same time, the house next door was recently bought by the city and razed because of flood risk.
THE CLIMATE REAL ESTATE BUBBLE: IS THE U.S. ON THE VERGE OF ANOTHER FINANCIAL CRISIS?GRAPHICS BY EMILY BARONEAPRIL 19, 2021TIMERFK Stadium, which hosted 1994 World Cup games and the 2003 Women’s World Cup, is due to be razed, perhaps as soon as later this year.
FIFA, D.C. ORGANIZERS MEET VIRTUALLY TO DISCUSS AREA’S 2026 WORLD CUP BID AND FEDEX FIELDGLYNN A. HILLMARCH 25, 2021WASHINGTON POSTDependent on leaf litter suspended in the understory, and restricted to just a few locations that were razed in early 2020, she suspects that the species may be extinct.
A YEAR AFTER AUSTRALIA’S WILDFIRES, EXTINCTION THREATENS HUNDREDS OF SPECIESJOHN PICKRELLMARCH 9, 2021SCIENCE NEWSHe I am informed sent a message to the Osage nation to raze the Kanses village entirely.
THE EXPEDITIONS OF ZEBULON MONTGOMERY PIKE, VOLUME II (OF 3)ELLIOTT COUESHere an awful blast swept the house, as if to raze it to its foundations.
MY NEW CURATEP.A. SHEEHANEn ez fur sellen' this place, war I wuz born'd en raze, I never spec' ter.
THAT OLD-TIME CHILD, ROBERTASOPHIE FOX SEAWORDS RELATED TO RAZE
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- downed
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- knocking down
- knocking over
- leveling
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- mowing down
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- razing
- riving
- severing
- shooting
- shooting down
- slashing
- splitting
- striking down
- sundering
- throwing down
- tumbling
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