arace
See also: Arace
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English aracen, arasen, from Old French arachier, esracier (modern French arracher), from Latin exradicare, eradicare. The prefix a- is perhaps due to Latin ab. See eradicate.
Verb
editarace (third-person singular simple present araces, present participle aracing, simple past and past participle araced)
- (obsolete, transitive) To tear up by the roots; to draw away.
- 1557, Thomas Wyatt, “Complaint upon Love to Reason”, in Tottel's Miscellany:
- I had my thought, and mynde araced
References
edit“arace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.