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English
Etymology
From Middle English aracen, arasen, from Old French arachier, esracier (modern French arracher), from Latin exradicare, eradicare. The prefix a- is perhaps due to Latin ab. See eradicate.
Verb
arace (third-person singular simple present araces, present participle aracing, simple past and past participle araced)
- (obsolete, transitive) To tear up by the roots; to draw away.
1557, Thomas Wyatt, “Complaint upon Love to Reason”, in Tottel's Miscellany:I had my thought, and mynde araced
References
“arace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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