Raze vs Devastate - What's the difference?
raze | devastate |
To demolish; to level to the ground.
To scrape as if with a razor.
(rhizome of ginger).
To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
As verbs the difference between raze and devastate
is that raze is to demolish; to level to the ground while devastate is to ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.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.”