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name
Acronym of Royal Agricultural Society of England.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
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name
A minor river in Lincolnshire, England, a tributary of the River Ancholme; in full, the River Rase.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Alternative spelling of raze (“a slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, obsolete
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noun
A measure in which the commodity assessed is made level with the top of the measuring vessel rather than heaped above it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
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verb
To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of race (“to pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something)”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, archaic, transitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively, transitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: regional, transitive
Qualifier: archaic except UK
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To carve (a line, mark, etc.) into something; to incise, to inscribe; also, to carve lines, marks, etc., into (something); to engrave.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To remove (something) by scraping; also, to cut or shave (something) off.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To rub lightly along the surface of (something); brush against, to graze.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To scrape (something) to remove things from its surface; also, to reduce (something) to small pieces by scraping; to grate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To shave (someone or part of their body) with a razor, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To carve lines, marks, etc., into something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To graze or rub lightly along a surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
To penetrate through something; to pierce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
Of a natural marking on the head of an animal (chiefly a horse): to extend down the head.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete, rare
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verb
tear down so as to make flat with the ground
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: level, raze, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: destroy, destruct
Narrower terms: bulldoze
History
A variant of raze, from Middle English rasen: see further at raze.
Probably either: * from Late Latin rāsum (neuter), rāsa (“level measure of grain”, feminine), a noun use of Latin rāsus (“scraped; shaved”, masculine), the perfect passive participle of rādō (“to scrape; to scratch; to shave; to touch upon, graze”), from Proto-Italic *razdō, further etymology unknown; or * from Anglo-Norman rase (“level measure of grain”), from Latin rāsus (see above).
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”)
PIE word *wréh2ds A variant of race (“(obsolete) to pluck; to pull off; to snatch; to tear”), partly influenced by raze.
From rase, race (“(usually white) marking on the head of an animal, chiefly a horse”); further etymology uncertain, possibly a specific use of race (“(obsolete) mark; cut, scratch”, noun), from race (“to cut, slash; to scratch; to tear”) (southwest England), a variant of raze.
