name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: dash, running, rush
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noun
A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: business, computing, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, sciences
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Synonyms: race condition, race hazard
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: course, procedure, process, train, array, chain, procession, consecution, sequence, series, string, succession
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A fast-moving current of water.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: rip
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A water channel, especially one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised, such as that which powers a millwheel.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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Narrower terms: headrace, mill race, wheel-race, tailrace
noun
A path that something or someone moves along.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: career, course, progress
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:
A groove on a sewing machine or a loom along which the shuttle moves.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: business, manufacturing, sewing, textiles, weaving
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Synonyms: shuttle race
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:
A ring with a groove in which rolling elements (such as balls) ride, forming part of a rolling-element bearing (for example, a ball bearing).
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
Synonyms: ballrace
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A keno gambling session.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: gambling, games
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noun
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: breed, strain, kind, lineage, people, variety, clan, ethnicity, ethnic group, ethnie, nationality, tribe
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: breed, strain, kind, lineage, people, variety
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: black, white, caucasian, mongoloid
noun
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: breed, strain, kind, lineage, people, variety
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
A large group of nonhumans distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: fantasy, human-sciences, literature, media, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, publishing, science-fiction, sciences
Synonyms: breed, strain, kind, lineage, people, variety
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: kind, strain, variety
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noun
A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: kind, strain, variety, ecospecies, ecotype, subspecies
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
A strain of plant with characteristics causing it to differ from other plants of the same species.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: kind, strain, variety
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: cultigen, cultivar, indigen
noun
A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: animal husbandry
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Synonyms: kind, strain, variety
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
A strain of microorganism, fungi, etc.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: bacteriology, biology, microbiology, mycology, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: kind, strain, variety, pathotype, pathovar
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A category or kind of thing distinguished by common characteristics.
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Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: class, type, category, description, stripe, fashion, division, family, genre, ilk, kind, likes, race, rubric, set, sort
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: typicity
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noun
Characteristic quality or disposition.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: attribute, idiosyncrasy, quirk, trait, characteristic, designation, distinction, distinctiveness, feature, hallmark, owndom, parameter, property, propriety, quality, race, touch, whatness
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: breeding, procreation, progenation, propagation, reproduction
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Ancestry, lineage.
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Usage: archaic, uncountable
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Synonyms: extraction, family, house, line, pedigree, stirp
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A step in a lineage or succession; a generation.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: age group, cohort
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Progeny, offspring, descendants.
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Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: get, issue, seed
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
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Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: rhizome, rootstalk
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To compete against in a race (contest).
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
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Usage: intransitive
Synonyms: rush, shift, zip, zoom
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
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verb
To pass down certain phenotypic traits to offspring.
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Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: come true, breed true
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verb
To sharpen (a grindstone) by scraping its surface.
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Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To cut, scratch, or tear (someone or something) with a sharp object; to lacerate, to slash; specifically (nautical), to make marks on (something, such as a piece of wood) using a race knife.
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Usage: West-Country, transitive
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Synonyms: carve, incise, snithe, chive, cut, gash, incide, lacerate, race, share, snead, snick, slash, slive
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To physically destroy; to obliterate:
To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: annihilate, eradicate, destroy, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose, demolish, desolate, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, eliminate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fordo, fuck, harry, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, nuke, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, pull down, pulverize, race, raze, ravage, ravel, remove, ruin, ruinate, stamp out, total, subvert, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, waste, wipe out, wipe off, wreck
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To physically destroy; to obliterate:
To make (a path or way) through something by cutting or tearing.
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Usage: obsolete, rare, transitive
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Synonyms: annihilate, eradicate, destroy, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose, demolish, desolate, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, eliminate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fordo, fuck, harry, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, nuke, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, pull down, pulverize, race, raze, ravage, ravel, remove, ruin, ruinate, stamp out, total, subvert, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, waste, wipe out, wipe off, wreck
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To physically destroy; to obliterate:
To make a cut or slash in (an item of clothing or footwear) as a decoration.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
Qualifier: footwear
Topics: business, clothing, fashion, lifestyle, manufacturing, textiles
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Synonyms: annihilate, eradicate, destroy, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose, demolish, desolate, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, eliminate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fordo, fuck, harry, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, nuke, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, pull down, pulverize, race, raze, ravage, ravel, remove, ruin, ruinate, stamp out, total, subvert, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, waste, wipe out, wipe off, wreck
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To erase; to delete; to edit:
To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: efface, expunct, expunge, oblivionize
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To erase; to delete; to edit:
To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: efface, expunct, expunge, oblivionize
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To erase; to delete; to edit:
To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.
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Usage: figuratively, obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: efface, expunct, expunge, oblivionize
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something).
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a canal for a current of water
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: raceway
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: canal
noun
a contest of speed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: contest, competition
Narrower terms: automobile race, auto race, car race, bicycle race, boat race, burnup, chariot race, dog racing, footrace, foot race, run, freestyle, cross country, heat, horse race, potato race, sack race, scratch race, ski race, skiing race, relay, relay race, repechage
noun
any competition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: contest, competition
Narrower terms: arms race, political campaign, campaign, run
noun
people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: group, grouping
Narrower terms: color, colour, people of color, people of colour, master race, Herrenvolk, Black race, Negroid race, Negro race, White race, White people, Caucasoid race, Caucasian race, Yellow race, Mongoloid race, Mongolian race, Indian race, Amerindian race, Slavic people, Slavic race
noun
(biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: subspecies
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: taxonomic group, taxonomic category, taxon
noun
the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: slipstream, airstream, backwash, wash
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flow
verb
compete in a race
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: run
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: compete, vie, contend
Narrower terms: show, place, boat-race, horse-race, campaign, run, speed skate
verb
move fast
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
Narrower terms: barge, thrust ahead, push forward, tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck, dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash
verb
cause to move fast or to rush or race
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rush
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: move, displace
verb
to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: act, move
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1reh1s-der. Proto-Germanic *rēsōder. Proto-West Germanic *rās Old English rǣs ▲ Proto-Germanic *rēsō Old Norse rásbor. Middle English race English race From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (“a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset”), from Proto-West Germanic *rās; and partially from Old Norse rás (“a running, race”); both from Proto-Germanic *rēsō (“a course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h1reh1s- (“to flow, rush”). Cognate with Middle Low German râs ("a strong current"; whence German Low German Raas (“mad rush, rage, fury”)), Dutch ras (“a strong whirling current”), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås.
1560s, via Middle French race from Italian razza (early 14th century), of uncertain origin. Partially displaced native Middle English kinde (“kind, type, sort, race, nature”), whence English kind. Fully displaced native Old English cnōsl. theories * Diez and some other scholars suggest derivation from Proto-Germanic *raitō (whence Old High German reiza (“line”) and Old Norse ríta (“to score, log, outline”)), perhaps via Lombardic *raiza (“line”), which Körting notes is a literal rendering of Latin linea sanguinis (“bloodline of descent”). Anatoly Liberman says "the semantic fit is good" but the chronology falters; he says the Germanic word went out of use before the Italian word arose, and he says the intermediary is not attested. * Some scholars suggest derivation from Old Spanish raza, rasa, from earlier ras, res (“head of cattle”), from Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”), but Italian razza predates the Spanish word according to Diez and Meyer-Lübke. * Meyer-Lübke suggested Latin generatio as the root; Körting says "the disappearance of two initial syllables hardly seems credible", but Meyer-Lübke notes the Venetian form narazza and the Old Bellunesian form naraccia, positing that after the first syllable ge- was lost, the remaining (una) narazza came to be reanalysed as una razza. * Gianfranco Contini suggests the Italian word comes from Old French haraz (“troop of horses”), whence Modern French haras (“breeding farm for horses; stud farm”), from Old Norse hárr (“grey-haired; hoary”). Liberman considers this derivation the most likely. * Other suggested Latin etyma: ** radius (perhaps via Vulgar Latin *radia) (per Baist). ** radix (“root”) (per Ulrich); Liberman says "the semantic match is excellent", and race (“rhizome of ginger”) (which definitely derives from radix) shows that the phonology is plausible. ** *raptiare (“breed falcons”) (per Körting). ** The nominative of ratio (perhaps via an unattested intermediate form *razzo), as opposed to ragione which derives from the accusative rationem. * Other implausible suggestions include Slavic raz and Basque arraca, supposedly meaning "stud animal" (Basque arrazza, "race", derives from Spanish).
Mid 16th century. From Middle French raïz, raiz, rais (“root”), from Latin radix (“root”), from Proto-Italic *wrādīks, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh2ds.
A variant of raze. From Middle English rasen, racen, rase (“to scrape; to shave; to erase; to rend; to cleave; etc”), from Anglo-Norman raser, rasere, rasser, Middle French raser, and Old French raser (“to shave; to demolish”), from Vulgar Latin *raso (“to shave; to scrape”), from Latin rāsus (“scraped; shaved”), the perfect passive participle of rādō (“to scrape, scratch”). Doublet of rash (etymology 2 and etymology 7).
PIE word *wréh2ds From Middle English racen, rasen (“to come apart; to pick clean, strip; to pull away, snatch; to pull down, knock down; to pull off, strip off; to pluck or tear out; to tear apart”), either: * an aphetic form of arasen, aracen (“to pluck, pull, or tear away or out”), from Anglo-Norman aracer and Old French aracier, esracier, esrachier (“to pull off”) (modern French arracher), from Latin ērādīcāre, the present active infinitive of ērādīcō (“to root out; to annihilate, extirpate”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + rādīx (“root”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wréh2ds (“root”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation infinitives of verbs); or * from Anglo-Norman racer, an aphetic form of aracer (see above).
Across languages
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