Rase

v. t.	1.	To rub along the surface of; to graze. [imp. & p. p. Rased (rāzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Rasing.] Was he not in the . . . neighborhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head? - South. Sometimes his feet rased the surface of the water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose. - Beckford.
	2.	To rub or scratch out; to erase. Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind. - Fuller.
	3.	To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze. Till Troy were by their brave hands rased, They would not turn home. - Chapman. Rasing iron a tool for removing old oakum and pitch from the seams of a vessel.
v. i.	1.	To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
n.	1.	A scratching out, or erasure.
	2.	A slight wound; a scratch.
	3.	(O. Eng. Law) 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

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rase - tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled" Synonyms: dismantle, pull down, raze, tear down, level, take down

bulldoze, destroy, destruct, dismantle, level, pull down, raze, take down, tear down

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