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Razed vs Razeed - What's the difference?

razed | razeed |

As verbs the difference between razed and razeed

is that razed is past tense of raze while razeed is past tense of razee.

As an adjective razed

is slashed or striped in patterns.

razed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (raze)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Slashed or striped in patterns.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.

    razeed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (razee)

    • razee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) An armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.
    • (Totten)

    Verb

  • (nautical) To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.
  • (figurative) To trim or abridge by cutting off parts.
    • to razee a book, or an article
  • *1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
    • "Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"
    (Webster 1913)