Raze vs Braze - What's the difference?
raze | braze |
To demolish; to level to the ground.
To scrape as if with a razor.
(rhizome of ginger).
To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.
(obsolete) To burn or temper in fire.
As verbs the difference between raze and braze
is that raze is to demolish; to level to the ground while braze is to join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.As a noun raze
is (rhizome of ginger).raze
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) raserVerb
(raz)- The word ‘laconic’ derives from Lakon (“person from Lakonia”) the district around Sparta in southern Greece in ancient times, whose inhabitants were famous for their brevity of speech. When threatened them with, “If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta,” the Spartans’ reply was, “If.”
