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To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.

(figurative) To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.

(also figurative) To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.

(archaic except UK, regional) To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze. +

(obsolete) To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.

(obsolete) To carve (a line, mark, etc.) into something; to incise, to inscribe; also, to carve lines, marks, etc., into (something); to engrave.

(obsolete) To remove (something) by scraping; also, to cut or shave (something) off.

(obsolete) To rub lightly along the surface of (something); brush against, to graze.

(obsolete) To scrape (something), with or as if with a razor, to remove things from its surface; also, to reduce (something) to small pieces by scraping; to grate.

(obsolete) To shave (someone or part of their body) with a razor, etc.

(obsolete, also figurative) To cut, scratch, or tear (someone or something) with a sharp object; to lacerate, to slash.

(obsolete) To carve lines, marks, etc., into something.

(obsolete) To graze or rub lightly along a surface.

(obsolete) To penetrate through something; to pierce.

(obsolete, rare) Of a horse: to wear down its corner teeth as it ages, losing the black marks in their crevices.

(obsolete) A slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit.

A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through.