Rase meaning

Verb: rase

Pronunciation:  (reyz)

Rase meaning:

• Destroy or tear down so as to make flat with the ground

Synonyms: level, raze, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down, flatten

Quotations:

William Shakespeare – The painful warrior famous for fight, after a thousand victories, once foiled, is from the books of honor rased quite, and all the rest forgot for which he toiled.

William Shakespeare – Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, rase out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?

Sample sentences:

1. When a force occupies an enemy fortress, it may rase the fortifications.
2. The blaze rased four or five blocks that housed the male Indonesian inmates.
3. It’s going to be a long recovery period. It’s a big difference if the house is still structurally sound and just needs to be cleaned up, or if it is destroyed and needs to be rased. In the short run, people need to be reminded to be careful and not put themselves in harm’s way.
4. I think we ought to rase that prison.
5. One of the first decisions we had to make was whether to keep the existing building or rase it.