Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

razee

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English

Syllables: razee
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.

verb

To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.

Transitive verb

verb

To trim or abridge by cutting off parts.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"an old line-of-battle ship, (21 years of age,) cut down to a razee"
"to razee a book, or an article"
""Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!""

Etymology

From French vaisseau rasé, from raser (“to rase, to cut down ships”). See raze and rase (verbs).

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: vaisseau rasé

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

razees (plural) razees (present, singular) razeeing (participle, present) razeed (participle, past) razeed (past)

Questions

What does razee mean?: An armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.
Where does razee come from?: It is traced to French.

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