2 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Razee \Ra*zee"\ (r[.a]*z[=e]"), noun [F. vaisseau ras['e], fr. raser to raze, to cut down ships. See {Raze}, verb (used with an object), {Rase}, verb (used with an object)] (Naut.) An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate. --Totten. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Razee \Ra*zee"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Razeed} (r[.a]*z[=e]d"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Razeeing}.] To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.

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