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raze
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: r?z, IPA(key): /?e?z/
- Homophones: raise, rase, rays, rehs, réis, res
- Rhymes: -e?z
Etymology 1
From Middle English rasen, from Old French raser, from Vulgar Latin *ras?, from Latin r?sus (“scraped, shaved”), perfect passive participle of r?d? (“scrape, shave”).
Verb
raze (third-person singular simple present razes, present participle razing, simple past and past participle razed)
- (transitive) To demolish; to level to the ground.
- (transitive) To destroy; to strike out of existence; to obliterate.
- (transitive) To scrape as if with a razor.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:destroy
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
raze
- Obsolete spelling of race (rhizome of ginger).
Etymology 3
Noun
raze (plural razes)
- A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through.
Further reading
- raze (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Azer., Ezra, Reza
Dutch
Verb
raze
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of razen
Anagrams
- Ezra
Friulian
Etymology 1
Uncertain; possibly of South Slavic or substrate origin. Compare Slovene raca, Romanian ra??.
Noun
raze f (plural razis)
- duck
Etymology 2
Compare Italian razza.
Noun
raze f (plural razis)
- race
- breed
- strain
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extinguish
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin extinguo (“to put out (what is burning), quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy, abolish”), from ex (“out”) + stinguere (“to put out, quench, extinguish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?st??.?w??/
Verb
extinguish (third-person singular simple present extinguishes, present participle extinguishing, simple past and past participle extinguished)
- (transitive) to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
- (transitive) to destroy or abolish something
- She extinguished all my hopes.
- They intended to extinguish the enemy by force of numbers
- 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
- The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.
- (transitive) to obscure or eclipse something
- The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.
- A beauty that extinguishes all others by comparison
- (transitive, psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
- Many patients can extinguish their phobias after a few months of treatment.
- (transitive, literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction
- (intransitive) To die out.
Synonyms
- put out, quench, douse
- See also Thesaurus:destroy
Related terms
- distinguish
- extinct
- extinction
- extinguisher
- fire extinguisher
Translations
Further reading
- extinguish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- extinguish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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