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rase

verb
/ɹeɪz/US

Etymology

From Late Middle English rasen, rasyn (“to rage; to enrage (?)”), probably from Middle Dutch râsen, râzen (“to be extremely angry, rage; to be mad, rave; to talk nonsense; of a dog: to be rabid”), from Old Dutch *rāson (modern Dutch razen), from Proto-West Germanic *rāsōn (“to rush”), Proto-Germanic *rēsōną (“to rush”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow; to rush”). cognates * Swedish rasa (“rage”)

  1. derived from *h₁reh₁s-✻ — “to flow; to rush”
  2. derived from *rēsōną✻ — “to rush”
  3. derived from *rāsōn✻ — “to rush”
  4. derived from *rāson✻
  5. derived from râsen
  6. inherited from rasen

Definitions

  1. To be extremely angry

    To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage.

    • [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; […]

  2. Alternative spelling of race (“to pluck or snatch (something)

    Alternative spelling of race (“to pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something)”).

    • [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.

  3. Alternative spelling of raze.

    • [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.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching

      An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.

      • Raſe a ſcrapyng
      • Perceaue vve not hovv they vvhoſe tenderneſſe ſhrinketh at the leaſt raſe of a needles point, do kiſſe the ſvvord that pearceth their ſoules quite through?

    2. Alternative spelling of raze (“a slight wound

      Alternative spelling of raze (“a slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit”).

    3. A measure in which the commodity assessed is made level with the top of the measuring…

      A measure in which the commodity assessed is made level with the top of the measuring vessel rather than heaped above it.

      • Toll ſhall be taken by the Raſe, and not by the Heap or Cantel. Ordinance for Bakers, Brevvers, &c. cap. 4. it ſeems to have been a meaſure of Corn, novv diſuſed

    4. Of a natural marking on the head of an animal (chiefly a horse)

      Of a natural marking on the head of an animal (chiefly a horse): to extend down the head.

    5. Acronym of Royal Agricultural Society of England.

    6. A minor river in Lincolnshire, England, a tributary of the River Ancholme

      A minor river in Lincolnshire, England, a tributary of the River Ancholme; in full, the River Rase.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA