rase

From Middle English rasen, from Old French raser, from Vulgar Latin *rasare, from Latin rasus < rado. See also erase.

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

rase (plural rases)

1. (obsolete) A scratching out, or erasure.
   • 1612, Pietro Martire “d'” Anghiera, De Novo Orbe, Or the Historie of the West Indies, page 89:

     But of the diuersitie of popingaies, we haue spoken sufficiently in the firste Decade: for in the rase of this large lande, Colonus him selfe brought and sent to the courte a great number of euery kinde, the whiche it was lawfull for all the people to beholde, and are yet daily brought in like manner.

   • 1628, John Gaule, The Practiqve Theorists Panegyrick. … A Sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse:

     The rase of whose skinne […] was more then the torment of their wretched Bodyes

   • 1773, “Hycke-Scorner: A Morality.”, in Thomas Hawkins, editor, The Origin of the English Drama, page 89:

     Felowes, they shall never more us withstonde, For I se them all drowned in the rase of Irlonde,

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.

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.
   • 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey, February 22. 1684-5. [Julian calendar]”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume I, 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC, page 317:

     For was he not in the neareſt Neighbourhood to Death? And might not the Bullet, that perhaps razed his Cheek, have as eaſily gone into his Head?

   • 1786, [William Beckford], [Samuel Henley], transl., An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: […] [Vathek], new edition, London: […] W. Clarke, […], published 1809, →OCLC, page 103:

     Sometimes, his feet raſed the ſurface of the water; and, at others, the ſkylight almoſt flattened his noſe.

2. (obsolete) To rub or scratch out; to erase.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 25”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     The painefull warrier famoſed for worth,
     After a thouſand victories once foild,
     Is from the booke of honour raſed quite,
     And all the reſt forgot for which he toild: […]

   • 1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times:

     Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 361–363:

     Though of their Names in heavenly Records now / Be no memorial, blotted out and ras'd / By thir Rebellion, from the Books of Life.

3. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
   • [1611?], Homer, “Book II”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume I, new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC, page 58:

     […] till Troy were by their brave hands rac'd, / They would not turn home: […]

4. To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

• AREs, ARSE, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, Sear, ares, arse, ears, eras, reas, sare, sear, sera

• IPA^(key): [ˈrasɛ]

rase f

1. dative/locative singular of rasa

From Old Norse rasa.

• IPA^(key): /raːsə/, [ˈʁɑːsə]

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

1. to rage
2. to storm

rase (genitive raseda, partitive rasedat, comparative rasedam, superlative kõige rasedam)

1. pregnant

   Synonym: tiine

• Ares
• aser
• raes
• reas

• IPA^(key): /ʁaz/

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rase

1. feminine singular of ras

rase

1. inflection of raser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “rase”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ares, Arès, sera

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• Rhymes: -aːzə

rase

1. inflection of rasen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

From Javanese ꦫꦱꦺ (rasé).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrase/
• Hyphenation: ra‧sé

rasé (first-person possessive raseku, second-person possessive rasemu, third-person possessive rasenya)

1. small Indian civet (Viverricula indica).

   Synonyms: musang bulan, musang rase

• “rase” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

rase

1. third-person singular past historic of radere

rase

1. feminine plural of raso

• Ares, arse, resa, sera

rāse

1. vocative masculine singular of rāsus

• rase in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

rase f (5th declension)

1. race (a large group of people set apart from others on the basis of a common heritage)
2. colour

• rasists

From Italian razza and Middle French race.

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

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

From Old Norse rasa.

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

• raseri

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

From Italian razza and Middle French race.

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

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

From Old Norse rasa.

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

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

• rasa

• raseri

• “rase” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

rase

1. inflection of rasa (“taste”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

rase

1. inflection of rasar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative