Crossword clues for rase
rase
- Destroy a Soho structure
- Level a Londoner's lodgings
- Lay waste
- Level to the ground
- Level: var
- Demolish: var
- Tear down, in Dover
- Level, in Liverpool
- Tear down: var
- Make the flat flat
- Flatten the flat
- Destroy: Var
- Demolish, in Dover
- Demolish, in Dorset
- Bulldoze, in Bath
- Work with a British demolition crew
- Tear down, in Taunton Deane
- Tear down, in Great Britain
- Obliterate, in Oxford
- Level flats in Liverpool
- Level a Soho building
- Level a flat
- Level a building in Soho
- Knock down, in Nottingham
- Knock down, in Britain
- Flatten, British-style
- Demolish, to a Brit
- Demolish, in Durham
- Demolish in Leeds
- Bulldoze, in Leeds
- Bulldoze, in Great Britain
- Bulldoze in Soho
- Bulldoze a Bath house
- Bring down the house in Lewisham
- Level, in Leeds
- Tear down, in England
- Flatten, in Britain
- Level, in London
- Flatten, in Falmouth
- Destroy, in Devon
- Demolish, British-style
- Level, to a Brit
- Tear down, in Tottenham
- Bring down, in England
- Demolish, in Sussex
- Make incised marks
- Make an incised mark
- Level, in Lincolnshire
- Demolish a Soho flat
- Level a Soho flat
- Bring down the house in Soho
- Flatten a Soho flat
- Destroy, in Derbyshire
- Demolish, in Devon
- Dismantle a flat
- Level a Hereford house
- Tear down, in Devonshire
- Flatten a flat (var.)
- What wreckers do in Soho
- Scratch out
- Incise
- Flatten, in Soho
- Form by carving
- Level a flat, say
- What British bulldozers do
- Demolish a block of flats
- Destroy: Var.
- Bulldoze, in Brighton
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
Razing the characters of your renown.
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To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.
The royal hand that razed unhappy Troy.
--Dryden.Syn: To demolish; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; ruin. See Demolish.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "remove by scraping, rub, scrape out, erase," from Old French raser "to scrape, shave," from Medieval Latin rasare, frequentative of Latin radere (past participle rasus) "to scrape, shave," perhaps from PIE *razd- (cognates: Latin rastrum "rake"), possible extended form of root *red- "to scrape, scratch, gnaw" (see rodent). Related: Rased; rasing.
Wiktionary
n. 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 vb. 1 (context obsolete English) to rub along the surface of; to graze 2 (context obsolete English) to rub or scratch out; to erase 3 to level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze 4 to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow
WordNet
Usage examples of "rase".
It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and expose -- to rase the gilding, and show base metal under it -- to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is indebted to him.
Rambuteau, ou, rase de frais, le teint vermeil sous ses cheveux blancs, une rose a la boutonniere, il donnait chaque jour des consultations aux commercants poursuivis par les huissiers.
All his decrees were formally ratified by his Derg, a council made up of nobles and great rases and chieftains.
They began with the members of the nobility, the rases and the chieftains and their families.
They were two cousins, almost like to twins, Except that from the catalogue of sins Nature had rased their love--which could not be But by dissevering their nativity.
Then we rased off the flesh from the necke, and cast dust thereon, and set it in the sun to dry.
And lightly they avoided their horses and rushed together, tracing, rasing, and foining.
She wanted to see him happily settled, rasing lots and lots of towheaded, cheerful youngsters.
Rambuteau, ou, rase de frais, le teint vermeil sous ses cheveux blancs, une rose a la boutonniere, il donnait chaque jour des consultations aux commercants poursuivis par les huissiers.
Nous ne sommes pas en force suffisante pour tenir contre eux en rase campagne.