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Rase   /reɪz/   Listen
noun
Rase  n.  
1.
A scratching out, or erasure. (Obs.)
2.
A slight wound; a scratch. (Obs.)
3.
(O. Eng. Law) 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.


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 Note: This word, rase, may be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase, and raze, having superseded it.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.


Raze  v. t.  (past & past part. razed; pres. part. razing)  (Written also rase)  
1.
To erase; to efface; to obliterate. "Razing the characters of your renown."
2.
To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish. "The royal hand that razed unhappy Troy."
Synonyms: To demolish; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; ruin. See Demolish.


Rase  v. i.  To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow. (Obs.)





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... pale corpse lay, Upborne by air or billow, So near, he could have touched the spray That churned around its pillow. The hollow anguish of the face Had moved a fiend to sorrow; Not death's fixed calm could rase the trace Of suffering's ...
— Poems • (AKA Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte) Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
... Philander; yet so much my sense of shame is above my growing tenderness, that I could wish you would be so generous to think no more of what you seem to pursue with such earnestness and haste. But lest I should retain any sort of former love for Philander, whom I am impatient to rase wholly from my soul, I grant you all you ask, provided you will be discreet in the management: Antonet therefore shall only be trusted with the secret; the outward gate you shall find at twelve only shut ...
— Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister • Aphra Behn
... the two commanders-in-chief, continued to beat against an easterly gale till the 29th, when the wind became fair for the bay. Standing towards it, she fell in with the Scerola, rase, in a sinking state, with the Revolution, 74, engaged in taking out the people. She assisted to save them, and the two ships continued their course towards Ireland, hoping to fall in with so many of the fleet as might still enable them ...
— The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth • Edward Osler
... marchande et bien situee. Il y avoit autrefois au centre un grand et fort chateau dont on voit encore les portes, qui sont en fer et tres-belles; mais les murs sont abbatus. D'une ville a l'autre on a, comme je l'ai dit, un beau pays plat; et depuis Leve je n'ai pas vu un seul arbre qui fut en rase campagne. ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt
... falsify it would have been for me as impossible as cheating at 'Patience.' From that to which I would not add I hated to subtract anything—even Ramsgate. After all, Ramsgate was not London; to have been in it was a kind of score. Besides, it had restored me to health. I had no right to rase it utterly. ...
— Yet Again • Max Beerbohm


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