Raxed vs Razed - What's the difference?
raxed | razed |
(rax)
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To stretch; stretch out.
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To reach out; reach or attain to.
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To extend the hand to; hand or pass something.
* 1825 , John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn and John Gibson Lockhart, Noctes Ambrosianæ No. XVIII'', in ''Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , vol. 17:
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch one's self; reach for or try to obtain something
(UK, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland, intransitive) To stretch after sleep.
barracks
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(raze)
(obsolete) Slashed or striped in patterns.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between raxed and razed
is that raxed is (rax) while razed is (raze).As an adjective razed is
(obsolete) slashed or striped in patterns.raxed
English
Verb
(head)rax
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) raxen, .Verb
(es)- Shoeless, he stood naked on his toes, his arms raxed upwards.
- Please rax me the pitcher.
- Wha the mischief set him on reading me? I'm sure he could never read onything in a dacent-like way since he was cleckit—rax' me the Queen, and I'll let you hear a bit that will gar your hearts dinnle again—' rax me the Queen, I say.
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Shortening of barracks.Noun
(en-noun)razed
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.
