rase

See also: rasé, rasë, and rašė

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

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

VerbEdit

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

AnagramsEdit

• Ares, ares, ARSE, arse, ears, ERAs, eras, sear, sera

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DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse rasa.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /raːsə/, [ˈʁɑːsə]

VerbEdit

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

1. to rage
2. to storm

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EstonianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

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

1. pregnant

SynonymsEdit

• tiine

AnagramsEdit

• Ares
• aser
• raes
• reas

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ʁaz/

VerbEdit

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

AnagramsEdit

• ares, Arès, sera

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GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -aːzə

VerbEdit

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.

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ItalianEdit

VerbEdit

rase

1. third-person singular past historic of radere

AdjectiveEdit

rase

1. feminine plural of raso

AnagramsEdit

• arse, ersa, resa, sera

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LatinEdit

ParticipleEdit

rāse

1. vocative masculine singular of rāsus

ReferencesEdit

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