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rase

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rase 1  (rz)
tr.v. rased, ras·ing, ras·es
To erase.
[Middle English rasen, to scrape off, erase; see raze.]
rase 2  (rz)
v.
Variant of raze.
rase [reɪz]
vb
a variant spelling of raze
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Verb1.rase - tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"
dismantle, pull down, raze, tear down, level, take down
bulldoze - flatten with or as if with a bulldozer
destroy, destruct - do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"
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rase raze


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Nor was his eare less peal'd With noises loud and ruinous (to compare Great things with small) then when BELLONA storms, With all her battering Engines bent to rase Som Capital City, or less then if this frame Of Heav'n were falling, and these Elements In mutinie had from her Axle torn The stedfast Earth.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
He ordered the captain of the guard to take with him forty men, to pillage Noureddin's house, to rase it to the ground, and to bring Noureddin and the slave to him.
The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context
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