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Rase

/ɹeɪz/

A scratching out, or erasure

📖 Definitions of "Rase"

noun

1
A scratching out, or erasure
2
A slight wound; a scratch
3
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

6 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
levelnoun	The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
razeverb	(transitive) To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
dismantleverb	(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
take downverb	To remove something from a website.
pull downverb	(transitive) To make (something) lower (especially of clothes).
tear downverb	(transitive) To demolish.

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
raiseverb	(physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
set upverb	(transitive) To make ready for use.
erectverb	Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
rearnoun	(transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
put upverb	(transitive) To place in a high location.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
tear downverb	(transitive) To demolish.
razeverb	(transitive) To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
pull downverb	(transitive) To make (something) lower (especially of clothes).
take downverb	To remove something from a website.
dismantleverb	(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
levelnoun	The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
demolishverb	(literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
delinitionnoun	(obsolete) A smearing.
exectionnoun	Obsolete form of exsection. [A cutting out or away.]
abrasionnoun	The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
gravingnoun	The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.
abrationnoun	Misspelling of abrasion. [The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.]
abstersionnoun	(archaic) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.
excarnificationnoun	(obsolete) The removal of flesh; excarnation.
excreationnoun	(obsolete) The act of spitting out.
exulcerationnoun	(obsolete) ulceration
excecationnoun	(obsolete) The act of making blind.
abrasurenoun	(dated) Abrasion, abrading.
escriptnoun	(obsolete) A writing.
apheresisnoun	(medicine, specific, still current) The removal of blood from a patient, and the removal of certain components (such as platelets) from that blood, followed by the transfusion of the filtered blood back to the donor (patient).