rase

Verb

Synonyms: level raze dismantle tear down take down pull down

WordNet 3.0

Verb (1)

tear down so as to make flat with the ground“The building was levelled”Synonyms: level raze dismantle tear down take down pull down

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Rase \Rase\, v. i. To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Rase \Rase\, n.

1.A scratching out, or erasure. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

2.A slight wound; a scratch. [Obs.] --Hooker. [1913 Webster]

3.(O. Eng. Law) 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. --Burrill. [1913 Webster]

Rase \Rase\ (r[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rased (r[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Rasing.] [F. raser, LL. rasare to scrape often, v. freq. fr. L. radere, rasum, to scrape, shave; cf. Skr. rad to scratch, gnaw, L. rodere to gnaw. Cf. Raze, Razee, Razor, Rodent.]

1.To rub along the surface of; to graze. [Obsoles.] [1913 Webster]

Was he not in the . . . neighborhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head?— South.[1913 Webster]

Sometimes his feet rased the surface of the water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose.— Beckford.[1913 Webster]

2.To rub or scratch out; to erase. [Obsoles.] [1913 Webster]

Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind.— Fuller.[1913 Webster]

3.To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze. [In this sense raze is generally used.] [1913 Webster]

Till Troy were by their brave hands rased, They would not turn home.— Chapman.[1913 Webster]

Note: This word, rase, may be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase, and raze, having superseded it. [1913 Webster]

Rasing iron, a tool for removing old oakum and pitch from the seams of a vessel. [1913 Webster]

Syn: To erase; efface; obliterate; expunge; cancel; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; demolish; ruin. [1913 Webster]

Raze \Raze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Razed (r[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Razing.] [F. raser. See Rase, v. t.] [Written also rase.]

1.To erase; to efface; to obliterate. [1913 Webster]

Razing the characters of your renown.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish. [1913 Webster]

The royal hand that razed unhappy Troy.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

Syn: To demolish; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; ruin. See Demolish. [1913 Webster]