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verb
Rase  v. t.  (past & past part. rased; pres. part. rasing)  
1.
To rub along the surface of; to graze. (Obsoles.) "Was he not in the... neighborhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head?" "Sometimes his feet rased the surface of the water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose."
2.
To rub or scratch out; to erase. (Obsoles.) "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. (In this sense raze is generally used) "Till Troy were by their brave hands rased, They would not turn home." Note: This word, rase, may be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase, and raze, having superseded it.
Rasing iron, a tool for removing old oakum and pitch from the seams of a vessel.
Synonyms: To erase; efface; obliterate; expunge; cancel; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; demolish; ruin.






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"Rase" Quotes from Famous Books



... d'eau, les toise et les mesure, Les meprise en sachant qu'il en est ecrase, Soumet son ame au poids de la matiere impure Et se sent mort ainsi que son vaisseau rase. —A de certains moments, l'ame est sans resistance; Mais le penseur s'isole et n'attend d'assistance Que de la forte foi dont il ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield

... it should be - sacred and unalterable in the hands of those where the community has placed it, depends entirely upon the breath of a minister, or of any man: But it is to be feared from this as well as other more recent instances, that there is a design to rase the foundations of the constitutions of these colonies, and place them upon this precarious and sandy foundation. - I have seen a letter from the agent of this province to the government here, dated so long ago as March the 7th, 1750; wherein he says, "I am afraid there is at bottom in the minds ...
— The Writings of Samuel Adams, volume II (1770 - 1773) - collected and edited by Harry Alonso Cushing • Samuel Adams

... had afforded him practically correct information. He gave the headman the right to send a number of messengers, each accompanied by a soldier, to the neighbouring villages and promised him fifty lashes and to rase his village, if the paddlers were ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle

... auld captain—as deid as ever was man 'at had nane left to greit for him. But thof there was nae greitin', no but sic a hullabaloo as rase upo' the discovery! They rade an' they ran; the doctor cam', an' the minister, an' the lawyer, an' the grave-digger. But whan a man's deid, what can a' the warl' du for 'im but berry 'im? puir hin'er en' thof it be to him' at draws himsel' up, an' blaws himsel' oot! There was mony a conjectur ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald

... tew rase hell," grinned Svenson, growling with delight as he swung the big club with which he had armed himself and tapped the hunting knife in his belt. "Don't Ay toll you dat Ay ben gude smart mans? Veil, by golly, ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse

... Thomas's altar within the monastery, at which time he rased out with his knife the said name out of the canon." The abbot told him to "take a pen and strike or cross him out." The saucy monk said those were not the orders. They were to rase him out. "Well, well," the abbot said, "it will come again one day." "Come again, will it?" was the answer. "If it do, then we will put him in again; but I trust I shall never see that day." The mild abbot could remonstrate, but could not any more command; and ...
— Froude's Essays in Literature and History - With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc • James Froude

... the house of the 2nd Chief where Concluded to Sleep. this man was pore nothing to eat but dried fish, and no wood to burn. altho the night was Cold they Could not rase as much wood as ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

... women, and children—are equally their enemies, for they know that the guilt of war is always confined to a few persons and that the many are their friends. And for all these reasons they will be unwilling to waste their lands and rase their houses; their enmity to them will only last until the many innocent sufferers have compelled the guilty few to ...
— The Republic • Plato

... is a-morning our early wine; Whenas Love unveileth the amourist's heart, * And by rending the veil he displays his sign, With a draught so pure, so dear, so bright, * As in hand of Moons[FN338] the Sun's sheeny shine O' nights it cometh with joy to 'rase * The hoar of sorrow by ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton



Words linked to "Rase" :   tear down, bulldoze, destruct, raze, pull down, destroy, level, dismantle, take down, raise



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