But with the help of a fresh contingent brought by Porus, it was razed to the ground as a punishment for its stubborn and useless resistance.
Mons razed to the ground, Valenciennes a heap of ruins and ashes, Mechlin a hecatomb.
It declared that houses in which conventicles were held were to be razed to the ground (Sept.
Pausanias says, that Talthybius afterward razed the house of Miltiades, because that chief instigated the Athenians to the execution of the Persian envoys.
Holy See about Castro, which was eventuallyrazed to the ground.
He grabbed the glass out of her hands, disgorged the contents into her face, raised her in his arms, and razed her onto the billiard table.
It was property that, by now, could be razed to the ground and paved with a highway for what she knew of it; and such neglect at being responsible for herself, an aberration from who she was, kept disturbing her equanimity.
Other cities, perhaps as great as these, were razed to the very earth and even their names are now forgotten.
The Romans having possession of the place, razed to the ground every part that had escaped the flames; but they lowered themselves even still more completely than they levelled the city.
They had razed the bridge to the ground, or rather lowered it to the water, when they called to their gallant defenders to come back, while there was still a plank left--a single deal to enable them to cut over to their partners.
Contributions were levied on the cities, the country was laid waste, villas were razed to the ground, and on all the points where the natives endeavoured to face the enemy, fearful hecatombs were slaughtered by the worshippers of Woden.
Those gingerbread French villas at Frascati, he thought, ought to be razed to the ground by act of parliament.
Twice has it been razed to the ground and twice rebuilt.
These Chosroes enslaved and razed everything to the ground.
When she sent ambassadors to treat of peace, and to offer the restitution of the prisoners brought from Syene, and the statues, Petronius attacked and took Napata, from which her son had fled, and thenrazed it.
It was once famous, but was razed by Alexander, and remains uninhabited.
This latter place was razed by Tryphon, but now the Romans have restored it, and two legions were stationed there by Agrippa, who also added to it a large portion of the territory of Massyas, as far as the sources of the Orontes.
After Smyrna had been razed by the Lydians, the inhabitants continued for about four hundred years to live in villages.
The fortifications were razed in the seventeenth century and gave place to artizans' houses.
After a siege of three months, they took and razed it to the ground so completely that it was never rebuilt, and from that day to this only a few piles of shapeless stones remain to mark the spot where it stood.
A war ensued: the little city of Crema was first besieged, and, after a gallant defence of seven months, taken and razedto the ground.
Sixty castles of the noble highwaymen were razed to the ground, and more than thirty of the titled vagabonds expiated their crimes on the scaffold.
The last Moor to take it was Almanzor, who razed it to the ground and then repopulated it with Arabs from Andalusia.
Entirely destroyed, razed to the ground upon two occasions, it was ever being rebuilt by the returning inhabitants who had fled.
Thus have I razed the foundation of your book, even by overthrowing the holiness, and righteousness, which by you is set up, as that which is the only true gospel, and evangelical.
He will behold all the doors open and all the strong fortifications and impregnable castles razed to the ground.
Holy Land was stripped and pillaged, Jerusalem razed to its foundations and the Israelites scattered broadcast throughout the world.
His house was then razedto the ground, his effects left to the plunder of the populace, and the women of his haram and his children sold for slaves.
The house was razed to the ground, and the abominable owner, with his guilty family, put to death.
Bostama not wishing to return to her father's house, which was the next day razed to the ground, was sent to the queen's apartments.
My second husband, in the heat of his resentment, was not satisfied with the demolition of that, but caused every other house in the same street to be razed to the ground.
Footnote 91: The feudal buildings were razed by order of Richelieu, but the tower remains a landmark for the valley.
On the contrary, the proviso of the Berlin Convention that all fortifications along the Rumania frontier should be razed to the ground had not been carried out by the Bulgarian Government.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "razed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
