Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To erase.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To scrape or glance along the surface of; scratch; graze; shave.
- To obliterate by scraping; erase; cancel; hence, to strike out of existence; annul; destroy: often with out.
- To level with the ground or the supporting surface; tear down or demolish; reduce to ruins: in this sense now always spelled
raze . - Synonyms Raze, Demolish. See
demolish . - noun A scratch; an abrasion; a slight wound.
- Same as
race . - noun An imperfection in velveteen or other pile fabric after the pile is cut.
- noun A Middle English form of
race .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A scratching out, or erasure.
- noun obsolete A slight wound; a scratch.
- noun (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.
- intransitive verb obsolete To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
- transitive verb obsolescent To rub along the surface of; to graze.
- transitive verb obsolescent To rub or scratch out; to erase.
- transitive verb To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
- transitive verb a tool for removing old oakum and pitch from the seams of a vessel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
scratching out, orerasure - noun A slight wound; a scratch
- noun 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 to
rub along the surface of; tograze - verb to rub or scratch out; to
erase - verb to level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to
raze - verb to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer
overthrow
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb tear down so as to make flat with the ground
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Wilson should be impeached for trying to rase a hate issue in our great nation. those who would or will follow this ass (Wilson). need to stop and think. did any one of these racist people have the ability to choose how or who they were when they were born?
Georgia congressman: Wilson's outburst 'carefully calculated' 2009
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People here have the state government change laws an then have the new laws applies to people that was sentenced under the old law but not with every law just the ones the people rase hell about ,so they do it just to keep there jobs what happen to them suppost to that care of eveyone here an to treat everyone farely.
'Magic happened' after she gave ex-cons a chance at new lives 2010
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She's no Obama and could in no way rase that much cash from insurance company employees.
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Nextee bugglie rase shud bee a rollypolly race and wee kin jest roll downz a hill!
Sometimes the - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Iz da rase dunned yet? iz tired … cwashes inta ta pool and has a rest!
Uhmzzz… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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You're so busy pouring over ridiculous electoral map conjectures and horse rase bullshit to stop and consider whether the horse you're pulling over is even worthy of the office.
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I hadda funz at da Cheezestock. da kitteh pillar rase was bestest.
Sometimes the - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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“And now commenced the rase for Bull Run and Manasses,” in the description of a Pennsylvania cavalryman.
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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The “rase” noted by the Pennsylvanian quickened later on October 14.
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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Ai thottd yu gyez kud too kuz ov da rase dat wuz mennee daez ago, when kiti wuz sad nobudy kaem to partey.
you killed a man? I jus scratch sofa - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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