Razes vs Raxes - What's the difference?
razes | raxes |
(raze)
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To demolish; to level to the ground.
To scrape as if with a razor.
(rhizome of ginger).
(rax)
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To stretch; stretch out.
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To reach out; reach or attain to.
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To extend the hand to; hand or pass something.
* 1825 , John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn and John Gibson Lockhart, Noctes Ambrosianæ No. XVIII'', in ''Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , vol. 17:
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch one's self; reach for or try to obtain something
(UK, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland, intransitive) To stretch after sleep.
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As verbs the difference between razes and raxes
is that razes is (raze) while raxes is (rax).razes
English
Verb
(head)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.”
Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
Noun
(head)Anagrams
* ----raxes
English
Verb
(head)rax
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) raxen, .Verb
(es)- Shoeless, he stood naked on his toes, his arms raxed upwards.
- Please rax me the pitcher.
- Wha the mischief set him on reading me? I'm sure he could never read onything in a dacent-like way since he was cleckit—rax' me the Queen, and I'll let you hear a bit that will gar your hearts dinnle again—' rax me the Queen, I say.