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(nautical) 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..
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!"
Use razee when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Razee means (nautical) 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..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
an old line-of-battle ship, (21 years of age,) cut down to a razee
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