rase

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See also: rasé, rasë, and rašė

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French raser, from Vulgar Latin *rasare, from Latin rasus < rado. See also erase.

Pronunciation

Noun

rase (plural rases)

  1. A scratching out, or erasure
  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

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  1. (obsolete) to rub along the surface of; to graze
    • (Can we date this quote by South and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Was he not in the […] neighbourhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head?
    • (Can we date this quote by Beckford and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose.
  2. (obsolete) to rub or scratch out; to erase
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 25:
      The painful warrior famousèd for worth,
      After a thousand victories once foil'd,
      Is from the book of honour razèd quite,
      And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lostː
      Though of their Names in heav'nly Records now be no memorial, blotted out and ras'd. By their Rebellion, from the Books of Life.
    • (Can we date this quote by Fuller and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind.
  3. to level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze
    • (Can we date this quote by Chapman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Till Troy were by their brave hands rased, / They would not turn home.
  4. to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow

Anagrams

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 [please provide], partitive [please provide], comparative {{{1}}}m, superlative kõige {{{1}}}m)

  1. pregnant

Synonyms

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Verb

rase

  1. first-person singular present indicative of raser
  2. third-person singular present indicative of raser
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of raser
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of raser
  5. second-person singular imperative of raser

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

Verb

rase

  1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of rasen.
  2. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of rasen.
  3. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of rasen.
  4. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of rasen.

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. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rasar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rasar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of rasar.
  4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rasar.
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