I. rāˈzē noun
( -s )
Etymology: French ( vaisseau ) rasé, from vaisseau ship + rasé, past participle of raser to rase, raze — more at rase
1. : a wooden ship having its upper deck cut away and thus reduced to the next lower rate or to an intermediate class (as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate)
2. : something (as a chest) subjected to razeeing
II. transitive verb
( razeed ; razeed ; razeeing ; razees )
1. : to convert (a ship) to a razee
2. : to make less, prune, or abridge by or as if by cutting off or retrenching parts
men razeed by poverty