rase
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rase (plural rases)
- A scratching out, or erasure
- A slight wound; a scratch
- 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)
- (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.
- South
- (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.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 25:
- 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.
- Chapman
- to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow
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DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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VerbEdit
rase (imperative ras, infinitive at rase, present tense raser, past tense rasede, perfect tense har raset)
EstonianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rase (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
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FrenchEdit
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VerbEdit
rase
- first-person singular present indicative of raser
- third-person singular present indicative of raser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of raser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of raser
- second-person singular imperative of raser
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GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -aːzə
VerbEdit
rase
- First-person singular present of rasen.
- First-person singular subjunctive I of rasen.
- Third-person singular subjunctive I of rasen.
- Imperative singular of rasen.
ItalianEdit
LatinEdit
ParticipleEdit
rāse
ReferencesEdit
- rase in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
LatvianEdit
NounEdit
rase f (5th declension)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of rase (5th declension)
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Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
rase m (definite singular rasen, indefinite plural raser, definite plural rasene)
ReferencesEdit
- “rase” in The Bokmål Dictionary.