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Webster 1913 Edition


Rase

Rase

(rāz)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Rased
(rāzd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Rasing
.]
[F.
raser
, LL.
rasare
to scrape often, v. freq. fr. L.
radere
,
rasum
, to scrape, shave; cf. Skr.
rad
to scratch, gnaw, L.
rodere
to gnaw. Cf.
Raze
,
Razee
,
Razor
,
Rodent
.]
1.
To rub along the surface of; to graze.
[Obsoles.]
Was he not in the . . . neighborhood to death? and might not the bullet which
rased
his cheek have gone into his head?
South.
Sometimes his feet
rased
the surface of the water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose.
Beckford.
2.
To rub or scratch out; to erase.
[Obsoles.]
Except we
rase
the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind.
Fuller.
3.
To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
[In this sense
raze
is generally used.]
Till Troy were by their brave hands
rased
,
They would not turn home.
Chapman.
☞ This word, rase, may be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase, and raze, having superseded it.
Rasing iron
,
a tool for removing old oakum and pitch from the seams of a vessel.
Syn. – To erase; efface; obliterate; expunge; cancel; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; demolish; ruin.

Rase

,
Verb.
I.
To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
[Obs.]

Rase

,
Noun.
1.
A scratching out, or erasure.
[Obs.]
2.
A slight wound; a scratch.
[Obs.]
Hooker.
3.
(O. Eng. Law)
A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.
Burrill.

Webster 1828 Edition


Rase

RASE

,
Verb.
T.
s as z. [L. rasus, rado.]
1.
To pass along the surface of a thing, with striking or rubbing it at the same time; to graze.
Might not the bullet which rased his cheek, have gone into his head? Obs.
2.
To erase; to scratch or rub out; or to blot out; to cancel.
[In this sense, erase is generally used.]
3.
To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to rase a city.
[In this sense, raze is generally used. This orthography, rase, may therefore be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase and raze having superseded it.]

RASE

, n
1.
A cancel; erasure. [Not in use.]
2.
A slight wound. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


rase

rase

See also: rasé, rasë, and rašė

English

Noun

rase (plural rases)

  1. A scratching out, or erasure
  2. A slight wound; a scratch
  3. A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it

Verb

rase (third-person singular simple present rases, present participle rasing, simple past and past participle rased)

  1. (obsolete) to rub along the surface of; to graze
    • South
      Was he not in the [] neighbourhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head?
    • Beckford
      Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose.
  2. (obsolete) to rub or scratch out; to erase
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lostː
      Though of their Names in heav'nly Records now be no memorial, blotted out and ras'd. By their Rebellion, from the Books of Life.
    • Fuller
      Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind.
  3. to level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze
    • Chapman
      Till Troy were by their brave hands rased, / They would not turn home.
  4. to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse rasa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raːsə/, [ˈʁɑːsə]

Verb

rase (imperative ras, infinitive at rase, present tense raser, past tense rasede, perfect tense har raset)

  1. to rage
  2. to storm

Estonian

Adjective

rase (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. pregnant

Synonyms

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁaz/

Verb

rase

  1. first-person singular present indicative of raser
  2. third-person singular present indicative of raser
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of raser
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of raser
  5. second-person singular imperative of raser

Anagrams


German

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aːzə

Verb

rase

  1. First-person singular present of rasen.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of rasen.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of rasen.
  4. Imperative singular of rasen.

Italian

Verb

rase

  1. third-person singular past historic of radere

Adjective

rase

  1. feminine plural of raso

Anagrams


Latin

Participle

rāse

  1. vocative masculine singular of rāsus

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