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Razee vs Razes - What's the difference?

razee | razes |

As verbs the difference between razee and razes

is that razee is to cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class while razes is third-person singular of raze.

As a noun razee

is 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.

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)

    razes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (raze)
  • ----

    raze

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) raser

    Verb

    (raz)
  • To demolish; to level to the ground.
  • 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.”
  • To scrape as if with a razor.
  • Synonyms
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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)
  • (rhizome of ginger).
  • Anagrams

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