razed

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razed /ˈreɪzd/ ?

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It turns out that the carbon lost when wilderness is razed overwhelms the gains from cleaner-burning fuels.
Officials say more than 3,000 blazes have razed thousands of hectatres of forests and scrubland across the country since June.
Energetic bureaucrats under the Republic and the People's Republic have razed most of the dynastic-era buildings.

"Of course, Saddam Hussein ought to have been hanged for destroying several Shiite villages," Putin said in Moscow. "And the incumbent Georgian leaders who razed ten Ossetian villages at once, who ran elderly people and children with tanks,...
on Aug 11, 2008 By: Vladimir Putin Source: USA Today
"I razed them...... we specified the farmland of those who were convicted and I signed," Saddam Hussein told the court.
on Mar 1, 2006 By: Saddam Hussein Source: BBC News
Of the Iranian bomb, Chirac said, "Where will it drop it, this bomb? On Israel? It would not have gone 200 meters into the atmosphere before Tehran would be razed to the ground."
on Feb 1, 2007 By: Jacques Chirac Source: EURSOC