rase
English
Pronunciation
Noun
rase (plural rases)
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)
- (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.
- (Can we date this quote by South?)
- (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.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 25:
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote by Chapman?)
- to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /raːsə/, [ˈʁɑːsə]
Estonian
Synonyms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁaz/
Verb
rase
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aːzə
Italian
Latin
References
- rase in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Latvian
Noun
rase f (5th declension)
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 |
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Italian razza and Middle French race
Verb
rase (imperative ras, present tense raser, passive rases, simple past raste, past participle rast, present participle rasende)
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Italian razza and Middle French race
Verb
rase (present tense rasar, past tense rasa, past participle rasa, passive infinitive rasast, present participle rasande, imperative ras/rase)
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Spanish
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