razing

Other forms of razing

plural

razings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about razing

What does razing mean?

razing means "the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in razing?

razing has 2 syllables: ra-zing. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪzɪŋ/.

What is another word for razing?

Close synonyms include wrecking, leveling, tearing down, demolishing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is razing a common word?

razing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with razing?

1 word rhymes with razing. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.