Rase

• POS: Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Rase, v. t. [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.].

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

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

  "Sometimes his feet rased the surface of the water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose."  [1913 Webster]
•  To rub or scratch out; to erase.  [1913 Webster]

  "Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind."  [1913 Webster]
•  To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.  [1913 Webster]

  " This word, rase, may be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase, and raze, having superseded it."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

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

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

Syn. -- To erase; efface; obliterate; expunge; cancel; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; demolish; ruin.

Rase, v. i. 

 To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.  [1913 Webster]

Rase, n. 

•  A scratching out, or erasure.  [1913 Webster]
•  A slight wound; a scratch.  Hooker.  [1913 Webster]
•  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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Rase, var. of RAZE.

ROGET THESAURUS

Rase

Obliteration

VB efface, obliterate, erase, raze, rase, expunge, cancel, blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out, wipe off, rub off, wipe away, deface, render illegible, draw the pen through, apply the sponge, be effaced, leave no trace, leave not a rack behind.