rase

§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
   • 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

§EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse rasa.

§PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /raːsə/, [ˈʁɑːsə]

§VerbEdit

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

1. to rage
2. to storm

§AdjectiveEdit

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

1. pregnant

§SynonymsEdit

• tiine

§AnagramsEdit

• Ares
• aser
• raes
• reas

§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

§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.

§VerbEdit

rase

1. third-person singular past historic of radere

§AdjectiveEdit

rase

1. feminine plural of raso

§AnagramsEdit

• arse, ersa, resa, sera

§ParticipleEdit

rāse

1. vocative masculine singular of rāsus