rase
/ɹeɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage.
Archaic; Intransitive verb
verb
Alternative spelling of race (“to pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something)”).
Archaic; Transitive verb
verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
Example Sentences
- "[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; […]"
- "[T]his Night / He dreamt, the Bore had raſed off his Helme: […]"
- "But doom the arm that perils not / In beauty's quarrel, every vein / That runs with ruddy drops, to rot / Beneath a taunting chain, / And that ignoblest hands should rase / The crest and spur from one so base."
- "[T]he fire-dragon had rased the coastal region and reduced forts and earthworks to dust and ashes, so the war-king planned and plotted his revenge."
- "The fortreſſe was raſed and beaten downe to the erthe⸝ whiche had coſt moche the makynge therof: […]"
Etymology
From Late Middle English rasen, rasyn (“to rage; to enrage (?)”), probably from Middle Dutch râsen, râzen (“to be extremely angry, rage; to be mad, rave; to talk nonsense; of a dog: to be rabid”), from Old Dutch *rāson (modern Dutch razen), from Proto-West Germanic *rāsōn (“to rush”), Proto-Germanic *rēsōną (“to rush”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow; to rush”). cognates * Swedish rasa (“rage”)
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹeɪz/
- British English: /ɹeɪz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
rases (present, singular)
rasing (participle, present)
rased (participle, past)
rased (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
rased (first person, past)
rasest (archaic, present)
rased (past, second person)
rasedst (archaic, past)
raseth (archaic, present)
rased (past, singular)