rase

See also: rasé, rasë, and rašė

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English

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French raser, from Vulgar Latin *rasare, from Latin rasus < rado. See also erase.

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
   • (Can we date this quote by South?)

     Was he not in the […] neighbourhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head?

   • (Can we date this quote by 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.

   • (Can we date this quote by 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
   • (Can we date this quote by 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

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Danish

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

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Estonian

Adjective

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

1. pregnant

Synonyms

• tiine

Anagrams

• Ares
• aser
• raes
• reas

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French

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. third-person singular present subjunctive of raser
5. second-person singular imperative of raser

Anagrams

• ares, Arès, sera

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German

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.

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Italian

Verb

rase

1. third-person singular past historic of radere

Adjective

rase

1. feminine plural of raso

Anagrams

• arse, ersa, resa, sera

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Latin

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)

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Latvian

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

Declension

Declension of rase (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	rase	rases
accusative (akuzatīvs)	rasi	rases
genitive (ģenitīvs)	rases	rašu
dative (datīvs)	rasei	rasēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	rasi	rasēm
locative (lokatīvs)	rasē	rasēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	rase	rases

Derived terms

• rasists

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Italian razza and Middle French race

Noun

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

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

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rasa

Verb

rase (imperative ras, present tense raser, passive rases, simple past raste, past participle rast, present participle rasende)

1. to be furious, fume, rage, rave
2. (figurative: fever, plague, war) to rage
3. (river) to rush, sweep over, tear along
4. (storm) to wreak havoc
5. (e.g. in an avalanche) to fall, slide
6. (with sammen) to collapse, cave in

Derived terms

• raseri

References

• “rase” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rase_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “rase_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Italian razza and Middle French race

Noun

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

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

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rasa

Verb

rase (present tense rasar, past tense rasa, past participle rasa, passive infinitive rasast, present participle rasande, imperative ras/rase)

1. to be furious, fume, rage, rave
2. (figurative: fever, plague, war) to rage
3. (river) to rush, sweep over, tear along
4. (storm) to wreak havoc
5. (e.g. in an avalanche) to fall, slide
6. (with saman) to collapse, cave in

Alternative forms

• rasa

Derived terms

• raseri

References

• “rase” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Spanish

Verb

rase

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rasar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rasar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rasar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rasar.