Verb (used with object), : to raze a row of old buildings.    From Dictionary.com. 

Carthage was rased to the ground and Achaia reduced to slavery, said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

Alexander rased it to the ground; but spared the house and family of Pindar.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference

House, &c., were rased to the ground, and all that had a market value was sold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference

The old Wahrendorff house has been rased to the ground, and stores stand in its place.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren] Reference

How long he stood there, while those winds blew and that storm 'rased, he had no idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weapon Shops of Isher]

What saved me was being rased by a very socially progressive Mother and a Father who was less so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Racism and Empathy: Some of My Approximating Experiences] Reference

As an unprotected village must Liege stand henceforth, walls and fortifications rased to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference

Zu Pfeiffer strode towards the hut indicated which stood near to the edge of a rased banana plantation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

Can't Post | pitt bulls are not bad dogs its how there rased. i myself would be happy to own one. brendel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alarm systems] Reference

He keepssaying that he cuts taxes, but the cities and small towns have rased taxes, cut police protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pawlenty: Not taking sides in most GOP primaries] Reference

Megarian, seems to me to have made a memorable answer when Demetrius enslaved Megara and rased it to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

After its surrender, on the last of July 1547, the Castle was ordered by an Act of Council to be rased to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference

Lordis of our Secreat Counsale, perceaving the seditious tumult rased be ane parte of our liegis, nameing thame selffis THE.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference

These are the largest and brightest blooms I have ever rased, and I have presed them carefully for you so that they held their colours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaman's Crossing]

The convent in which the bells, the chef-d'oeuvre of his skill, were hung, was rased to the earth, and these last carried away to another land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850] Reference

Many said that had Sir Gawaine said half as many shameful things to one of them, they would have instantly rased his evil head from his shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference

CREMONA, a city of Italy, built A.U.C. 536, and afterwards, in the year 822, rased to the ground by the army of Vespasian, in the war with Vitellius.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference

St Leu and St Gilles, a small building of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries: all the convents have been rased to the ground except that of St Lazare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

For this I broke their altars, rased their shrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polyeucte] Reference

And the line of Hengist and Cerdic shall be rased from the roll of empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

The town of Maogamalcha is stormed by the Romans, and rased to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens] Reference

Hill; but that familiar imposture was rased a year or two ago, no one protesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yet Again] Reference

O how have they scratched, and rased, and pierced, and bruised, and broken one another!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.] Reference

Medical device companies accounted for 34 percent of the startup dollars rased, bringing in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal] Reference

The city, we are informed, was rased to the ground, and Bishop Datius escaped to Constantinople.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator] Reference

St. Thomas's altar within the monastery, at which time he rased out with his knife the said name out of the canon. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference

After making the inhabitants flee, the radical groups rased their homes and used Molotov cocktails to set them on fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spero News] Reference

In the summer of 1534, orders came that the pope's name should be rased out wherever it was mentioned in the Mass books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference

But it appears that the edifice built up by the tender affection of Vauvenargues was rased to the ground in December 1742.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France] Reference

Captain Truck, to use his own language, resembled "a horse in fly-time," his skin having been rased in no less than five places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homeward Bound or, the Chase] Reference

And the result is costing very much more in cancelled or postponed infrastructure investment than is being rased by business rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs] Reference

Tarzan was the son of a British Lord and Lady who were marooned on the West Coast of Africa and upon their death was rased by locals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mesopotamia West] Reference

Moslems, armed with pickaxes and shovels, rased it to the ground, having first taken the Cross and Gospels and thrown them into a latrina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.] Reference