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Rase vs Obliterate - What's the difference?

rase | obliterate | Synonyms |

Rase is a synonym of obliterate.


As a noun rase

is case.

As a verb obliterate is

to remove completely, leaving no trace; to wipe out; to destroy.

rase

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A scratching out, or erasure
  • A slight wound; a scratch
  • 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
  • Verb

    (ras)
  • (obsolete) to rub along the surface of; to graze
  • * South
  • Was he not in the neighbourhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head?
  • * Beckford
  • Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose.
  • (obsolete) to rub or scratch out; to erase
  • * Fuller
  • Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind.
  • to level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze
  • * Chapman
  • Till Troy were by their brave hands rased , / They would not turn home.
  • to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    obliterate

    English

    Verb

    (obliterat)
  • To remove completely, leaving no trace; to wipe out; to destroy.
  • * (1841-1898)
  • *:The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated .
  • *
  • *:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
  • Synonyms

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