RASE
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rase¹
- /ɹeɪz/ US, UK
Sounds like raise, rays, raze, rehs, réis, res · Rhymes with -eɪz
Where it comes from
From Late Middle English rasen, rasyn (“to rage; to enrage (?)”), probably from Middle Dutch râsen, râzen (“to be extremely angry, rage; to be mad, rave; to talk nonsense; of a dog: to be rabid”), from Old Dutch *rāson (modern Dutch razen), from Proto-West Germanic *rāsōn (“to rush”), Proto-Germanic *rēsōną (“to rush”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow; to rush”).
cognates
* Swedish rasa (“rage”)
verb rases · rasing · rased
- To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage. [T]he ſtones did ſeem / Too roare and bellow hoarce: and doggs too howle and raze extréeme: […]
rase²
- /ɹeɪz/ US, UK
Sounds like raise, rays, raze, rehs, réis, res · Rhymes with -eɪz
Where it comes from
PIE word
*wréh₂ds
A variant of race (“(obsolete) to pluck; to pull off; to snatch; to tear”), partly influenced by raze.
verb rases · rasing · rased
- Alternative spelling of race (“to pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something)”).race [T]his Night / He dreamt, the Bore had raſed off his Helme: […]
rase³
- /ɹeɪz/ US, UK
Sounds like raise, rays, raze, rehs, réis, res · Rhymes with -eɪz
Where it comes from
A variant of raze, from Middle English rasen: see further at raze.
verb rases · rasing · rased · rase
- Alternative spelling of raze.raze [T]he fire-dragon had rased the coastal region and reduced forts and earthworks to dust and ashes, so the war-king planned and plotted his revenge.
- To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish. The fortreſſe was raſed and beaten downe to the erthe⸝ whiche had coſt moche the makynge therof: […]
- To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate. It is true, the Devil did not immediately raſe out the Notion of Religion and of a God from the Minds of Men, […]
- To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out. Suppleyng to Fame, I besought her grace, / And that it wolde please her, full tenderly I prayd, / Owt of her bokis Apollo to rase.
- To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze. For vvas he not in the neareſt Neighbourhood to Death? And might not the Bullet, that perhaps raſed his Cheek, have as eaſily gone into his Head?
- To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it. [page 650] A raſing or cancelling of a record by the order of that court, in vvhoſe cuſtody the record is, is no felony in him that doth it, nor in the court that commands it, for the court hath a ſuperintendence, as vvell over the record as over the clerks. […] It muſt be ſuch an embezzelling or av
- To carve (a line, mark, etc.) into something; to incise, to inscribe; also, to carve lines, marks, etc., into (something); to engrave. [Y]ou muſt mark the out-lines of your intended Hinge, […] either vvith Chalk, or elſe raſe upon the Plate vvith the corner of the Cold-Chiſſel, or any other hardned Steel that vvill ſcratch a bright ſtroke upon the Plate: […]
- To remove (something) by scraping; also, to cut or shave (something) off.
- To rub lightly along the surface of (something); brush against, to graze. And novv [the Rhine] by this time augmented vvith ſnovv, melted and reſolved into vvater, and raſing as it goes the high bankes vvith their curving reaches, entreth into a round and vaſt lake (vvhich the Rhætians dvvelling thereby, call Brigantia) […]
- To scrape (something) to remove things from its surface; also, to reduce (something) to small pieces by scraping; to grate. And you are a ſoule, ſo vvhite, and ſo chaſte, / A table ſo ſmooth, and ſo nevvly ra'ſte, / As nothing cald foule, / Dare approach vvith a blot, / Or any leaſt ſpot; […]
- To shave (someone or part of their body) with a razor, etc. [A] ſharpe worde moued thée, when other whiles a ſworde will not, then a friendly checke killeth thée, when a raſor cannot raſe thée.
- To cut, scratch, or tear (someone or something) with a sharp object; to lacerate, to slash. Dravv forth thy ſvvord, thou mightie man at armes, / Intending but to raiſe my charmed ſkin: / And Ioue himſelfe vvill ſtretch his hand from heauen, / To vvard the blovv, and ſhield me ſafe from harme, […]
- To carve lines, marks, etc., into something.
- To graze or rub lightly along a surface. Betwene theſe Ilandes and the continente, he entered into ſoo narowe ſtreyghtes, that he coulde ſcarſely turne backe the ſhippes: And theſe alſo ſo ſhalowe, that the keele of the ſhyps ſumtyme raſed on the ſandes.
- To penetrate through something; to pierce. [O]ne Robert Dutch of Ipſvvith, having been ſorely vvounded by a Bullet that raſed to his skull, and then mauled by the Indian Hatchets, left for dead by the Salvages,^([sic – meaning Savages]) and ſtript by them of all but his skin; […]
noun rases
- An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure. Raſe a ſcrapyng
- Alternative spelling of raze (“a slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit”).raze And verely the Emperour Nero vvas ſo greatly enamoured vpon one image of Alexander [the Great], that hee commaunded it to be guilded all over: but aftervvards, ſeeing that the more coſt vvas beſtovved upon it by laying on gold, the leſſe vvas the art ſeene of the firſt vvorkman [Lysippos], ſo that i
rase⁴
- /ɹeɪz/ US, UK
Sounds like raise, rays, raze, rehs, réis, res · Rhymes with -eɪz
Where it comes from
Probably either:
* from Late Latin rāsum (neuter), rāsa (“level measure of grain”, feminine), a noun use of Latin rāsus (“scraped; shaved”, masculine), the perfect passive participle of rādō (“to scrape; to scratch; to shave; to touch upon, graze”), from Proto-Italic *razdō, further etymology unknown; or
* from Anglo-Norman rase (“level measure of grain”), from Latin rāsus (see above).
noun rases
- A measure in which the commodity assessed is made level with the top of the measuring vessel rather than heaped above it. Toll ſhall be taken by the Raſe, and not by the Heap or Cantel. Ordinance for Bakers, Brevvers, &c. cap. 4. it ſeems to have been a meaſure of Corn, novv diſuſed
rase⁵
- /ɹeɪz/ US, UK
Sounds like raise, rays, raze, rehs, réis, res · Rhymes with -eɪz
Where it comes from
From rase, race (“(usually white) marking on the head of an animal, chiefly a horse”); further etymology uncertain, possibly a specific use of race (“(obsolete) mark; cut, scratch”, noun), from race (“to cut, slash; to scratch; to tear”) (southwest England), a variant of raze.
verb rases · rasing · rased
- Of a natural marking on the head of an animal (chiefly a horse): to extend down the head.
RASE⁶
proper noun
- Acronym of Royal Agricultural Society of England.Royal Agricultural Society of England
Rase⁷
proper noun
- A minor river in Lincolnshire, England, a tributary of the River Ancholme; in full, the River Rase.
