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Rase vs Crase - What's the difference?

rase | crase |

In obsolete terms the difference between rase and crase

is that rase is to rub or scratch out; to erase while crase is to break in pieces; to crack.

As a noun rase

is a scratching out, or erasure.

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

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    crase

    English

    Verb

    (cras)
  • (obsolete) To break in pieces; to crack.
  • * Chaucer
    • The pot was crased .
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