raze

Short definition from Wiktionary

Verb

1. 1
   To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
2. 2
   To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.
3. 3
   To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
4. 4
   To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze.
5. 5
   To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.
6. 6
   To carve (a line, mark, etc.) into something; to incise, to inscribe; also, to carve lines, marks, etc., into (something); to engrave.
7. 7
   To remove (something) by scraping; also, to cut or shave (something) off.
8. 8
   To rub lightly along the surface of (something); brush against, to graze.
9. 9
   To scrape (something), with or as if with a razor, to remove things from its surface; also, to reduce (something) to small pieces by scraping; to grate.
10. 10
    To shave (someone or part of their body) with a razor, etc.
11. 11
    To cut, scratch, or tear (someone or something) with a sharp object; to lacerate, to slash.
12. 12
    To carve lines, marks, etc., into something.
13. 13
    To graze or rub lightly along a surface.
14. 14
    To penetrate through something; to pierce.
15. 15
    Of a horse: to wear down its corner teeth as it ages, losing the black marks in their crevices.

Noun

1. 1
   A slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit.
2. 2
   Obsolete spelling of race (“rhizome of ginger”).
3. 3
   A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through.