Meaning of rase | Babel Free
/ɹeɪz/Definitions
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To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage. archaic, intransitive
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Alternative spelling of race (“to pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something)”). alt-of, alternative, archaic, transitive
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Alternative spelling of raze. alt-of, alternative
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Of a natural marking on the head of an animal (chiefly a horse): to extend down the head. intransitive, obsolete, rare
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To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish. transitive
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To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate. figuratively, transitive
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To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out. also, figuratively, transitive
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To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze. regional, transitive
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To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it. obsolete, transitive
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To carve (a line, mark, etc.) into something; to incise, to inscribe; also, to carve lines, marks, etc., into (something); to engrave. obsolete, transitive
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To remove (something) by scraping; also, to cut or shave (something) off. obsolete, transitive
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To rub lightly along the surface of (something); brush against, to graze. obsolete, transitive
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To scrape (something) to remove things from its surface; also, to reduce (something) to small pieces by scraping; to grate. obsolete, transitive
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To shave (someone or part of their body) with a razor, etc. obsolete, transitive
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To cut, scratch, or tear (someone or something) with a sharp object; to lacerate, to slash. also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive
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To carve lines, marks, etc., into something. intransitive, obsolete
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To graze or rub lightly along a surface. intransitive, obsolete
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To penetrate through something; to pierce. intransitive, obsolete
Examples
“[T]he ſtones did ſeem / Too roare and bellow hoarce: and doggs too howle and raze extréeme: […]”
“So up & down that critic rased / & back & foorth he foyned & trased / & monstrous strookes deliverd; […]”
“[T]his Night / He dreamt, the Bore had raſed off his Helme: […]”
“But doom the arm that perils not / In beauty's quarrel, every vein / That runs with ruddy drops, to rot / Beneath a taunting chain, / And that ignoblest hands should rase / The crest and spur from one so base.”
“[T]he fire-dragon had rased the coastal region and reduced forts and earthworks to dust and ashes, so the war-king planned and plotted his revenge.”
“The fortreſſe was raſed and beaten downe to the erthe⸝ whiche had coſt moche the makynge therof: […]”
“Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jeruſalem; who ſayd, raſe it, raſe it: euen to the foundation thereof.”
“[A]fter they had deſtroyed Religion, they pulled dovvn Churches, (as being then of no Uſe) and raſed the nobleſt Structures in the Land, to ſell the Materials; […]”
“Thou vvoundeſt the Head of the Houſe of the VVicked; / Thou raſedſt the Foundation even to the Rock; / Thou piercedſt thro' vvith thy Scepter the Head of the Villages.”
“It is true, the Devil did not immediately raſe out the Notion of Religion and of a God from the Minds of Men, […]”
“Suppleyng to Fame, I besought her grace, / And that it wolde please her, full tenderly I prayd, / Owt of her bokis Apollo to rase.”
“[N]o malice of ſucceeding daies, / can raſe thoſe records of thy laſting praiſe.”
“The painefull vvarrier famoſed for vvorth, / After a thouſand victories once foild, / Is from the booke of honour raſed quite, / And all the reſt forgot for vvhich he toild: […]”
“Though of their Names in heavenly Records novv / Be no memorial, blotted out and ras'd / By thir Rebellion, from the Books of Life.”
“Inſcription is an Obligation made in VVriting, vvhereby the Accuſer binds himſelf to undergo the ſame Puniſhment, if he ſhall not prove the Crime vvhich he objects to the Party accuſed in his accuſatory Libel, […] And if ſuch Articles are not legally inſcrib'd, as aforeſaid, then the Name of the Defendant ſhall be raſed out, and the Defendant ſhall be reſtor'd to his former ſtate of Innocence.”
“Our quick-returning Folly cancels all; / As the Tide ruſhing raſes vvhat is vvrit / In yielding Sands, and ſmooths the Letter'd Shore.”
“They were two cousins, almost like two twins, / Except that from the catalogue of sins / Nature had rased their love, which could not be / But by dissevering their nativity.”
“O stiffly shapen houses that change not, / What conjuror's cloth was thrown across you, and raised, / To show you thus transfigured, changed, / Your stuff all gone, your menace almost rased?”
“For vvas he not in the neareſt Neighbourhood to Death? And might not the Bullet, that perhaps raſed his Cheek, have as eaſily gone into his Head?”
“[page 650] A raſing or cancelling of a record by the order of that court, in vvhoſe cuſtody the record is, is no felony in him that doth it, nor in the court that commands it, for the court hath a ſuperintendence, as vvell over the record as over the clerks. […] It muſt be ſuch an embezzelling or avoiding of the record, by reaſon vvhereof a judgment is reverſed, […] [page 651] [I]f A. B. be ſued by the original to the exigent and outlavved, and aftervvard the exigent is made C. B. and the original is alſo made C. B. to make all agree, this is felony as vvell in the clerk that raſeth the original, as him that raſeth the exigent.”
“[Y]ou muſt mark the out-lines of your intended Hinge, […] either vvith Chalk, or elſe raſe upon the Plate vvith the corner of the Cold-Chiſſel, or any other hardned Steel that vvill ſcratch a bright ſtroke upon the Plate: […]”
“And novv [the Rhine] by this time augmented vvith ſnovv, melted and reſolved into vvater, and raſing as it goes the high bankes vvith their curving reaches, entreth into a round and vaſt lake (vvhich the Rhætians dvvelling thereby, call Brigantia) […]”
“Sometimes, his feet raſed the ſurface of the water; and, at others, the ſkylight almoſt flattened his noſe.”
Vathek
“And you are a ſoule, ſo vvhite, and ſo chaſte, / A table ſo ſmooth, and ſo nevvly ra'ſte, / As nothing cald foule, / Dare approach vvith a blot, / Or any leaſt ſpot; […]”
“[A] ſharpe worde moued thée, when other whiles a ſworde will not, then a friendly checke killeth thée, when a raſor cannot raſe thée.”
“Dravv forth thy ſvvord, thou mightie man at armes, / Intending but to raiſe my charmed ſkin: / And Ioue himſelfe vvill ſtretch his hand from heauen, / To vvard the blovv, and ſhield me ſafe from harme, […]”
“VVheels o'er the harden'd VVaters ſmoothly glide, / And raſe vvith vvhiten'd Tracks the ſlipp'ry Tide.”
“Betwene theſe Ilandes and the continente, he entered into ſoo narowe ſtreyghtes, that he coulde ſcarſely turne backe the ſhippes: And theſe alſo ſo ſhalowe, that the keele of the ſhyps ſumtyme raſed on the ſandes.”
“[O]ne Robert Dutch of Ipſvvith, having been ſorely vvounded by a Bullet that raſed to his skull, and then mauled by the Indian Hatchets, left for dead by the Salvages,^([sic – meaning Savages]) and ſtript by them of all but his skin; […]”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.