razee

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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.

“to razee a book, or an article”

OriginFrench vaisseau rasé →
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Meanings

nounrazee (plural razees)

plural razees

  1. nauticalAn 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.

    an old line-of-battle ship, (21 years of age,) cut down to a razee

    1838, Edmund Fanning, Voyages to the South Seas […]
verbrazee (third-person singular simple present razees, present participle razeeing, simple past and past participle razeed)

present singular third person razees · participle present razeeing · participle past razeed · past razeed

  1. transitivenauticalTo cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.
  2. figurativelytransitiveTo trim or abridge by cutting off parts.

    to razee a book, or an article

    1 more example

    "Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 36”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Frenchvaisseau rasé
  2. Englishrazee

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

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APA

razee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/razee

MLA

“razee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/razee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “razee,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/razee.

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