What is the history behind “raze” and “raise” (two words that sound the same but mean nearly opposite things)? [closed]
Solution 1:
Raze, from vulgar Latin rasare, meaning "scrape, erase." 15th or 16th century.
Raise is of Germanic origin, and three or four centuries older: risan.
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