Raze vs Rase - What's the difference?
raze | rase |
To demolish; to level to the ground.
To scrape as if with a razor.
(rhizome of ginger).
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
(obsolete) to rub along the surface of; to graze
* South
* Beckford
(obsolete) to rub or scratch out; to erase
* Fuller
to level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze
* Chapman
to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow
As verbs the difference between raze and rase
is that raze is to demolish; to level to the ground while rase is to rub along the surface of; to graze.As nouns the difference between raze and rase
is that raze is obsolete spelling of lang=en rhizome of ginger while rase is a scratching out, or erasure.raze
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) raserVerb
(raz)- 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.”
Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
Noun
(head)Anagrams
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(ras)- Was he not in the neighbourhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head?
- Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose.
- Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind.
- Till Troy were by their brave hands rased , / They would not turn home.