 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rase
verb: tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building
was levelled" [syn: {level}, {raze}, {dismantle}, {tear
down}, {take down}, {pull down}] [ant: {raise}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rase \Rase\ (r[=a]z), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Rased} (r[=a]zd); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Rasing}.] [F. raser, LL. rasare to scrape
often, v. freq. fr. L. radere, rasum, to scrape, shave; cf.
Skr. rad to scratch, gnaw, L. rodere to gnaw. Cf. {Raze},
{Razee}, {Razor}, {Rodent}.]
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? --South.
Sometimes his feet rased the surface of the water,
and at others the skylight almost flattened his
nose. --Beckford.
2. To rub or scratch out; to erase. [Obsoles.]
Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and
branch, out of our mind. --Fuller.
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. --Chapman.
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graze, erase, and raze, having superseded it.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.
Syn: To erase; efface; obliterate; expunge; cancel; level;
prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; demolish; ruin.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rase \Rase\, verb (used without an object)
To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
[Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rase \Rase\, noun
1. A scratching out, or erasure. [Obs.]
2. A slight wound; a scratch. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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.
--Burrill.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Raze \Raze\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Razed} (r[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Razing}.] [F. raser. See {Rase}, verb (used with an object)] [Written also
{rase}.]
1. To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
Razing the characters of your renown. --Shak.
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. --Dryden.
Syn: To demolish; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert;
destroy; ruin. See {Demolish}.
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