Thesaurus: razee

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1. v. t. An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.
2. v. t. To cut down to a less class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/number">number of decks, and thus to an class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/inferior">inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.
3. An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate. Totten. To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or glass, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.
4. An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reducedto the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.Totten.
5. v. t. An class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/armed">armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/reduced">reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate. v. t. To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.