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noun
A slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Obsolete spelling of race (“rhizome of ginger”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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noun
A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
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
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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Synonyms: destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose, demolish, desolate, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, eliminate, eradicate, 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
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verb
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
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
To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
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
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
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
To scrape (something), with or as if with a razor, 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
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
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
To carve lines, marks, etc., into something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To graze or rub lightly along a surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To penetrate through something; to pierce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
Of a horse: to wear down its corner teeth as it ages, losing the black marks in their crevices.
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, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: destroy, destruct
Narrower terms: bulldoze
History
The verb is derived from Middle English rasen, racen, rase (“to scrape; to shave; to erase; to pull; to strip off; to pluck or tear out; to root out (a tree, etc.); to pull away, snatch; to pull down; to knock down; to rend, tear apart; to pick clean, strip; to cleave, slice; to sever; to lacerate; to pierce; to carve, engrave; to dig; (figurative) to expunge, obliterate; to alter”), from Anglo-Norman raser, rasere, rasser, Middle French raser, and Old French raser (“to shave; to touch lightly, graze; to level off (grain, etc.) in a measure; to demolish, tear down; to erase; to polish; to wear down”), from Vulgar Latin *raso (“to shave; to scrape; to scratch; to touch lightly, graze”), from Latin rāsus (“scraped; shaved”), the perfect passive participle of rādō (“to scrape, scratch; to shave; to rub, smooth; to brush along, graze”). Doublet of rash (etymology 2 and etymology 7). The noun is derived from the verb.
Across languages
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
