raze

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.

   “The fortreſſe was raſed and beaten downe to the erthe⸝ whiche had coſt moche the makynge therof: […]”

2. fiil To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.

   “Yet at the laſt, caſting with my ſelf, that yͤ heat of thy loue might cleane be razed with yͤ coldnes of my letter, I thought it good to commit an inconuenience, that I might preuent a miſchiefe, chuſing rather to cut thée off ſhort by rigour, then to giue thée any iot of hope by ſilence.”

3. fiil To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.

   “Suppleyng to Fame, I besought her grace, / And that it wolde please her, full tenderly I prayd, / Owt of her bokis Apollo to rase.”

4. fiil To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze.

   “[T]he ſvvorde more mercifull then hee to himſelfe, vvith the ſlipping of the pommel, the point ſvvarued, and razed him but vpon the ſide: […]”

5. fiil To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.

   “This indenture is raced all the worlde may ſe it: Ceſte indenture eſt faulcée tout le monde le peult veoyr.”

6. fiil To carve (a line, mark, etc.) into something; to incise, to inscribe; also, to carve lines, marks, etc., into (something); to engrave.

   “Generally, Barbarous People, that goe Naked, doe not onely paint Themſelues, but they povvnce and raze their Skinne, that the Painting may not be taken forth; And make it into VVorks.”

7. fiil To remove (something) by scraping; also, to cut or shave (something) off.
8. fiil To rub lightly along the surface of (something); brush against, to graze.

   “And novv [the Rhine] by this time augmented vvith ſnovv, melted and reſolved into vvater, and raſing as it goes the high bankes vvith their curving reaches, entreth into a round and vaſt lake (vvhich the Rhætians dvvelling thereby, call Brigantia) […]”

9. fiil To scrape (something), with or as if with a razor, to remove things from its surface; also, to reduce (something) to small pieces by scraping; to grate.

   “And you are a ſoule, ſo vvhite, and ſo chaſte, / A table ſo ſmooth, and ſo nevvly ra'ſte, / As nothing cald foule, / Dare approach vvith a blot, / Or any leaſt ſpot; […]”

10. fiil To shave (someone or part of their body) with a razor, etc.

    “[A] ſharpe worde moued thée, when other whiles a ſworde will not, then a friendly checke killeth thée, when a raſor cannot raſe thée.”

11. fiil To cut, scratch, or tear (someone or something) with a sharp object; to lacerate, to slash.

    “Buckles and agglettes at vnwares, ſhall race his bowe, a thinge both euill for the fight, ⁊ perillous for freatinge.”

12. fiil To carve lines, marks, etc., into something.
13. fiil To graze or rub lightly along a surface.

    “Betwene theſe Ilandes and the continente, he entered into ſoo narowe ſtreyghtes, that he coulde ſcarſely turne backe the ſhippes: And theſe alſo ſo ſhalowe, that the keele of the ſhyps ſumtyme raſed on the ſandes.”

14. fiil To penetrate through something; to pierce.

    “[O]ne Robert Dutch of Ipſvvith, having been ſorely vvounded by a Bullet that raſed to his skull, and then mauled by the Indian Hatchets, left for dead by the Salvages,^([sic – meaning Savages]) and ſtript by them of all but his skin; […]”

15. fiil Of a horse: to wear down its corner teeth as it ages, losing the black marks in their crevices.
16. isim A slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit.

    “[I]f you make tvvo razes on each ſide [of the horse's hoof], it ſhall bee ſo much the better, and inlarge the hoofe the more; […]”

17. isim Obsolete spelling of race (“rhizome of ginger”).
18. isim A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through.