RASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rase mean? 

• RASE (verb)
  The verb RASE has 1 sense:

1. tear down so as to make flat with the ground

  Familiarity information: RASE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RASE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rase    ... he / she / it rases   
Past simple: rased   
Past participle: rased   
-ing form: rasing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tear down so as to make flat with the ground

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

dismantle; level; pull down; rase; raze; take down; tear down

Context example:

The building was levelled

Hypernyms (to "rase" is one way to...):

destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rase"):

bulldoze (flatten with or as if with a bulldozer)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and expose—to rase the gilding, and show base metal under it—to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is indebted to him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)