rasante

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French rasant, present participle of raser (“to graze”).

Adjective

rasante (comparative more rasante, superlative most rasante)

1. (military, historical) Sweeping; grazing; applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, so that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rasante”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Antares, Nateras, Retanas, anearst, atranes

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French

Adjective

rasante

1. feminine singular of rasant

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German

Adjective

rasante

1. inflection of rasant:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

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Italian

Verb

rasante

1. present participle of rasare

Anagrams

• rasenta, stanare, stanerà

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Spanish

Adjective

rasante m or f (masculine and feminine plural rasantes)

1. low-flying