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. [In
this sense raze is generally used.]
Till Troy were by their brave hands rased, They would not turn
home.
Chapman.
This word, rase, may be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase,
and raze, having superseded it.
Rasing iron, a tool for removing old oakum and pitch from the seams of
a vessel.
Syn. -- To erase; efface; obliterate; expunge; cancel; level;
prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; demolish; ruin.
Rase, v. i. To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer
overthrow. [Obs.]