Rase

Quick meaning: Rase is a verb meaning (intransitive, archaic) To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage.

Meaning

(intransitive, archaic) To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, archaic) Alternative spelling of race (“to pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something)”).
2. An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.
3. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) Of a natural marking on the head of an animal (chiefly a horse): to extend down the head.
4. Alternative spelling of raze.
5. Alternative spelling of raze (“a slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit”).
6. (obsolete, rare) A measure in which the commodity assessed is made level with the top of the measuring vessel rather than heaped above it.

Example Sentences

Raſe a ſcrapyng

[T]his Night / He dreamt, the Bore had raſed off his Helme: […]

[T]he ſtones did ſeem / Too roare and bellow hoarce: and doggs too howle and raze extréeme: […]

So up & down that critic rased / & back & foorth he foyned & trased / & monstrous strookes deliverd; […]

Word Forms

• rases
• rasing
• rased
• rasest
• rasedst
• raseth

Synonyms for rase

Depending on context, synonyms include level, raze, dismantle, pull down, tear down.

Antonyms for rase

Common opposites include raise, set up, erect, rear, put up.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tear down, raze, pull down, dismantle, level, demolish.

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