rase

Meanings

1. To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage.

1. Alternative spelling of race (“to pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something)”).

1. Alternative spelling of raze.
2. To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
3. To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.
4. To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
5. To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze.
6. To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.
7. To carve (a line, mark, etc.) into something; to incise, to inscribe; also, to carve lines, marks, etc., into (something); to engrave.
8. To remove (something) by scraping; also, to cut or shave (something) off.
9. To rub lightly along the surface of (something); brush against, to graze.
10. To scrape (something) to remove things from its surface; also, to reduce (something) to small pieces by scraping; to grate.
11. To shave (someone or part of their body) with a razor, etc.
12. To cut, scratch, or tear (someone or something) with a sharp object; to lacerate, to slash.

1. An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.
2. Alternative spelling of raze (“a slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit”).

1. A measure in which the commodity assessed is made level with the top of the measuring vessel rather than heaped above it.

1. Of a natural marking on the head of an animal (chiefly a horse): to extend down the head.

1. Acronym of Royal Agricultural Society of England.

1. A minor river in Lincolnshire, England, a tributary of the River Ancholme; in full, the River Rase.

Etymology

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”)