The council decided to raze the old city hall to the ground.
•This building is to be razed to the ground.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
ground — ground1 W1S1 [graund] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(earth)¦ 2¦(area of land)¦ 3¦(reason)¦ 4¦(subject)¦ 5¦(opinion)¦ 6¦(sport)¦ 7 hold/stand your ground 8 get off the ground 9 gain ground 10 lose ground … Dictionary of contemporary English
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knock something down — 1 the building was knocked down: DEMOLISH, pull down, tear down, destroy; raze (to the ground), level, flatten, bulldoze. 2 (in … Useful english dictionary
knock something down — Syn: demolish, pull down, tear down, destroy, raze (to the ground), level, flatten, bulldoze … Synonyms and antonyms dictionary
pull something down — DEMOLISH, knock down, tear down, dismantle, raze (to the ground), level, flatten, bulldoze, destroy. → pull … Useful english dictionary
tear something down — DEMOLISH, knock down, raze (to the ground), flatten, level, bulldoze; dismantle, disassemble. → tear * * * ˌtear sthˈdown derived to pull or knock down a building, wall, etc. Syn … Useful english dictionary
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laconic — [16] The Greek term for an inhabitant of the ancient region of Laconia, in the southern Peloponnese, and of its capital Sparta, was Lákōn. The Spartans were renowned for not using two words where one would do (there is a story that when Philip of … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
