rase

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See also: rasé, rasë, rašė, and řase

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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. [Julian calendar]”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] H[eptinstall] for Thomas Bennet, […], →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    • 1786, [William Beckford], translated by [Samuel Henley], An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: […] [Vathek], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 103: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.
  3. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
  4. To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

rase f

  1. dative/locative singular of rasa

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse rasa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raːsə/, [ˈʁɑːsə]

Verb

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

  1. to rage
  2. to storm

Estonian

Adjective

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

  1. pregnant
    Synonym: tiine

Declension

Declension of rase (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative rase rasedad
accusative nom.
gen. raseda
genitive rasedate
partitive rasedat rasedaid
illative rasedasse rasedatesse
rasedaisse
inessive rasedas rasedates
rasedais
elative rasedast rasedatest
rasedaist
allative rasedale rasedatele
rasedaile
adessive rasedal rasedatel
rasedail
ablative rasedalt rasedatelt
rasedailt
translative rasedaks rasedateks
rasedaiks
terminative rasedani rasedateni
essive rasedana rasedatena
abessive rasedata rasedateta
comitative rasedaga rasedatega

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

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

Anagrams

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

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 (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.).
    Synonyms: musang bulan, musang rase

Coordinate terms

Further reading

Italian

Verb

rase

  1. third-person singular past historic of radere

Adjective

rase

  1. feminine plural of raso

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) rāse

  1. vocative masculine singular of rāsus

References

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

Declension of rase (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) rase rases
accusative (akuzatīvs) rasi rases
genitive (ģenitīvs) rases rašu
dative (datīvs) rasei rasēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) rasi rasēm
locative (lokatīvs) rasē rasēs
vocative (vokatīvs) rase rases

Derived terms

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

References

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
Derived terms

References

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

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
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