bulldoze vs raze

bulldoze

verb
  • To destroy with a bulldozer. 

  • To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does. 

  • To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully. 

  • To push through forcefully. 

  • To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over". 

raze

verb
  • To destroy; to strike out of existence; to obliterate. 

  • To scrape as if with a razor. 

  • To demolish; to level to the ground. 

noun
  • A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through. 

How often have the words bulldoze and raze occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )