About The Word Rase
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Rase
Rase Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Rase?
[v] tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Rase: dismantle | level | pull down | raze | take down | tear down Related Terms | Find terms related to Rase: See Also | bulldoze | destroy | destruct Rase In Webster's Dictionary \Rase\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rased}; 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 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 {rase} is generally used.]
Till Troy were by their brave hands rased, They
would not turn home. --Chapman.
Note: 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graze, erase, and raze, having superseded it.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\, v. i. To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow. [Obs.] \Rase\, n. 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. |
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