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Rave vs Raze - What's the difference?

rave | raze |

As nouns the difference between rave and raze

is that rave is an enthusiastic review (such as of a play) or rave can be one of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh while raze is (rhizome of ginger).

As verbs the difference between rave and raze

is that rave is to wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging while raze is to demolish; to level to the ground.

rave

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin.

Noun

(en noun)
  • An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
  • An all-night dance party filled with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
  • (uncountable) The genre of electronic dance music associated with rave parties.
  • * 2009 , Chrysalis Experiential Academy, Mind Harvesting (page 109)
  • Maybe I wear baggies / And white socks with flip-flops / Maybe I don't like listening to rave / And I'm not on the social mountaintops

    Verb

    (rav)
  • To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
  • * Addison
  • Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
  • * Macaulay
  • The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.
  • To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
  • * 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Section 3. § 5.
  • A production without design would resemble more the ravings of a madman, than the sober efforts of genius and learning.
  • To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about'', ''of'', or (formerly) ''on .
  • He raved about her beauty.
  • * Byron
  • The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.
  • (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
  • (Spenser)
  • To attend a rave (dance party).
  • See also

    * rant

    Etymology 2

    English dialect raves, or .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    raze

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) raser

    Verb

    (raz)
  • To demolish; to level to the ground.
  • The word ‘laconic’ derives from Lakon (“person from Lakonia”) the district around Sparta in southern Greece in ancient times, whose inhabitants were famous for their brevity of speech. When threatened them with, “If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta,” the Spartans’ reply was, “If.”
  • To scrape as if with a razor.
  • Synonyms
    * See also

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)
  • (rhizome of ginger).
  • Anagrams

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