rase
- raze.
raze
or rase
- to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- to shave or scrape off.
Origin of raze
Synonym study
Examples from the Web for rasing
Historical Examples of rasing
Thus they fared two hours or more trasing and rasing either other, where they might hit any bare place.
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I (of II)Thomas Malory
And lightly they avoided their horses and rushed together, tracing, rasing, and foining.
The Blue Flower, and OthersHenry van Dyke
rase
- a variant spelling of raze
raze
rase
- to demolish (a town, buildings, etc) completely; level (esp in the phrase raze to the ground)
- to delete; erase
- archaic to graze
Word Origin for raze
Word Origin and History for rasing
raze
1540s, alteration of racen "pull or knock down" (a building or town), from earlier rasen (14c.) "to scratch, slash, scrape, erase," from Old French raser "to scrape, shave" (see rase). Related: Razed; razing.
rase
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- (cf. Latin rastrum "rake"), possible extended form of root *red- "to scrape, scratch, gnaw" (see rodent). Related: Rased; rasing.