Reducing to rubble

Usage examples of razing.

It was the Luftwaffe literally razing the Warsaw ghetto to the ground in three days and nights.

As he rowed, Yama wondered again about Derev, and wondered if the Aedile had resisted the razing of Aeolis and was now a prisoner in his own peel-house, wondered what had happened to all the citizens of Aeolis, and again thought of Derev.

Kurds, Saddam Husayn attempted to weaken Kurdish resistance by forcibly relocating many Kurds from the Kurdish heartland in the north, by introducing increasing numbers of Arabs into mixed Kurdish provinces, and by razing all Kurdish villages along a 1,300 kilometer stretch of the border with Iran.

He stormed and took the castles of rebel vassals between Tours and Poitiers, razing their walls and burning their ruins, uprooting orchards and vineyards, leaving terror in his wake, and filling the dungeons of Normandy with the captives that he seized.

The razing and burning of strongholds continued in many localities as the tide ebbed and flowed.

By passing only the strongly fortified castles of Aumale and Gournay, he cut a wide swath from Boutavant toward Eu, burning and razing as he went, until finally he pitched his tents before Arques, not a half dozen leagues from Rouen.

They would return to finish what they had begun, now that the Crimson Sword was beyond their reach, razing Morethil to the ground.

Lynx helicopter returned, swooping in fast, now firing with its mini-gun, razing the side of the building with a storm of bullets.

By the time he was through, he was razing perfectly healthy schools, churches, fire stations, amusement parks, and even entire tracts of single-family houses, replacing them with sprawling condominium town houses.