Raze

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the ·same·as race, a root.

II. Raze ·vt To Erase; to Efface; to Obliterate.

III. Raze ·vt To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to Overthrow; to Destroy; to Demolish.