A root.

To subvert from the foundation; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish; as, to raze a city to the ground. The royal hand that raz’d unhappy Troy.

To erase; to efface; to obliterate. Razing the characters of your renown. [In this sense, rase and erase are now used.I .

To extirpate. And raze their factions and their family.