rase

English

Etymology

From Middle English rasen, from Old French raser, from Vulgar Latin *rasare, from Latin rasus < rado. See also erase.

Pronunciation

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• enPR: rāz, IPA^(key): /ɹeɪz/
• Homophones: raise, rays, raze, rehs, réis, res
• Rhymes: -eɪz

Noun

rase (plural rases)

1. (obsolete) A scratching out, or erasure.
   • 1612, Pietro Martire “d'” Anghiera, De Novo Orbe, Or the Historie of the West Indies, page 89:

     But of the diuersitie of popingaies, we haue spoken sufficiently in the firste Decade: for in the rase of this large lande, Colonus him selfe brought and sent to the courte a great number of euery kinde, the whiche it was lawfull for all the people to beholde, and are yet daily brought in like manner.

   • 1628, John Gaule, The Practiqve Theorists Panegyrick. … A Sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse:

     The rase of whose skinne […] was more then the torment of their wretched Bodyes

   • 1773, “Hycke-Scorner: A Morality.”, in Thomas Hawkins, editor, The Origin of the English Drama, page 89:

     Felowes, they shall never more us withstonde, For I se them all drowned in the rase of Irlonde,

2. A slight wound; a scratch.
3. A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.

Verb

rase (third-person singular simple present rases, present participle rasing, simple past and past participle rased)

1. (obsolete) To rub along the surface of; to graze.
   • 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey, February 22. 1684-5. ”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volume I, London: J Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, , published 1727, →OCLC, page 317:

     For was he not in the neareſt Neighbourhood to Death? And might not the Bullet, that perhaps razed his Cheek, have as eaſily gone into his Head?

   • 1786, [William Beckford], translated by [Samuel Henley], An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: , new edition, London: W. Clarke, , published 1809, →OCLC, page 103:

     Sometimes, his feet raſed the ſurface of the water; and, at others, the ſkylight almoſt flattened his noſe.

2. (obsolete) To rub or scratch out; to erase.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 25”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. ‎, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     The painefull warrier famoſed for worth,
     After a thouſand victories once foild,
     Is from the booke of honour raſed quite,
     And all the reſt forgot for which he toild: […]

   • 1660, Thomas Fuller, “Name General”, in Mixt Contemplations in Better Times, London: R D for Iohn Williams, , →OCLC, page 17:

     Though we carry a ſimple and ſingle remembrance of our loſſes unto the grave, it being impoſſible to do other-waies (except we raze the faculty of memory Roote and Branch out of our mind) yet let us not keep any record of them with the leaſt reflection of revenge.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 361–363:

     Though of their Names in heavenly Records now / Be no memorial, blotted out and ras'd / By thir Rebellion, from the Books of Life.

3. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
   • , Homer, “Book II”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. , London: Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, , new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., , 1843, →OCLC, page 58:

     […] till Troy were by their brave hands rac'd, / They would not turn home: […]

     The spelling has been modernized.

4. To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

Anagrams

• AREs, ARSE, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, Sear, ares, arse, ears, eras, reas, sare, sear, sera

Czech

Pronunciation

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Noun

rase f

1. dative/locative singular of rasa

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse rasa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raːsə/,

Verb

rase (imperative ras, infinitive at rase, present tense raser, past tense rasede, perfect tense har raset)

1. to rage
2. to storm

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rasëda.

Adjective

rase (genitive raseda, partitive rasedat, comparative rasedam, superlative kõige rasedam)

1. pregnant

   Synonym: tiine

Declension

Anagrams

• Ares
• aser
• raes
• reas

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁaz/

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Adjective

rase

1. feminine singular of ras

Verb

rase

1. inflection of raser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “rase”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Anagrams

• ares, Arès, sera

German

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aːzə

Verb

rase

1. inflection of rasen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Javanese ꦫꦱꦺ (rasé).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrase/
• Hyphenation: ra‧sé

Noun

rasé (first-person possessive raseku, second-person possessive rasemu, third-person possessive rasenya)

1. small Indian civet (Viverricula indica).

   Synonyms: musang bulan, musang rase

Coordinate terms

Further reading

• “rase” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Verb

rase

1. third-person singular past historic of radere

Adjective

rase

1. feminine plural of raso

Anagrams

• Ares, arse, resa, sera

Latin

Participle

rāse

1. vocative masculine singular of rāsus

References

• rase in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Noun

rase f (5th declension)

1. race (a large group of people set apart from others on the basis of a common heritage)
2. colour

Declension

Derived terms

• rasists

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Italian razza and Middle French race.

Noun

rase m (definite singular rasen, indefinite plural raser, definite plural rasene)

1. a race (of humankind)
2. a breed (of animal)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rasa.

Verb

rase (imperative ras, present tense raser, passive rases, simple past raste, past participle rast, present participle rasende)

1. to be furious, fume, rage, rave
2. (figurative: fever, plague, war) to rage
3. (river) to rush, sweep over, tear along
4. (storm) to wreak havoc
5. (e.g. in an avalanche) to fall, slide
6. (with sammen) to collapse, cave in

Derived terms

• raseri

References

• “rase” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rase_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “rase_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Italian razza and Middle French race.

Noun

rase m (definite singular rasen, indefinite plural rasar, definite plural rasane)

1. a race (of humankind)
2. a breed (of animal)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rasa.

Verb

rase (present tense rasar, past tense rasa, past participle rasa, passive infinitive rasast, present participle rasande, imperative rase/ras)

1. to be furious, fume, rage, rave
2. (figurative: fever, plague, war) to rage
3. (river) to rush, sweep over, tear along
4. (storm) to wreak havoc
5. (e.g. in an avalanche) to fall, slide
6. (with saman) to collapse, cave in

Alternative forms

• rasa

Derived terms

• raseri

References

• “rase” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Javanese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrase/
• Hyphenation: ra‧sé

Noun

rase

1. civet

   Synonyms: lubak, luwak

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦫꦱꦺ (rasé)
  • → Indonesian: rase

Further reading

• "rase" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

rase

1. inflection of rasa (“taste”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Spanish

Verb

rase

1. inflection of rasar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative