razee

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Verb

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

sinonimi

abridge

belittle

clip

crop

curtail

cut back

dock

dwarf

lop

pare

prune

retrench

scrimp

trim

Etimologia (Inglese)

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