rase

Pronunciation

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• enPR: rāz, IPA^(key): /ɹeɪz/
• Homophones: raise, rays, raze
• Rhymes: -eɪz

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
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 25:

     The painful warrior famousèd for worth,

     After a thousand victories once foil'd,

     Is from the book of honour razèd quite,

     And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

   • 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

Anagrams

• AREs, ARSE, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, ares, arse, ears, eras, reas, sare, sear, sera

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

Adjective

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

1. pregnant

Anagrams

• Ares
• aser
• raes
• reas

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

• ares, Arès, sera

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.

Verb

rase

1. third-person singular past historic of radere

Adjective

rase

1. feminine plural of raso

Anagrams

• arse, ersa, resa, sera

Participle

rāse

1. vocative masculine singular of rāsus

References

• rase in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Noun

rase f (5th declension)

1. race (a large group of people set apart from others on the basis of a common heritage)
2. colour

Etymology

From Italian razza

Noun

rase m (definite singular rasen, indefinite plural raser, definite plural rasene)

1. a race (of humankind)
2. a breed (of animal)

References

• “rase” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Italian razza

Noun

rase m (definite singular rasen, indefinite plural rasar, definite plural rasane)

1. a race (of humankind)
2. a breed (of animal)

References

• “rase” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.