Meaning of rase | Babel Free
ɹeɪzDefinitions
- To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage.
- Alternative spelling of race (“to pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something)”).
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Alternative spelling of raze. alt-of, alternative
- Of a natural marking on the head of an animal (chiefly a horse): to extend down the head.
- To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
- To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.
- To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
- To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze.
- To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.
- To carve (a line, mark, etc.) into something; to incise, to inscribe; also, to carve lines, marks, etc., into (something); to engrave.
- To remove (something) by scraping; also, to cut or shave (something) off.
- To rub lightly along the surface of (something); brush against, to graze.
- To scrape (something) to remove things from its surface; also, to reduce (something) to small pieces by scraping; to grate.
- To shave (someone or part of their body) with a razor, etc.
- To cut, scratch, or tear (someone or something) with a sharp object; to lacerate, to slash.
- To carve lines, marks, etc., into something.
- To graze or rub lightly along a surface.
- To penetrate through something; to pierce.
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.
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