Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze. 2. (v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase. 3. (v. t.) To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze. 4. (v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow. 5. (n.) A scratching out, or erasure. 6. (n.) A slight wound; a scratch. 7. (n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by raising, or striking off, all that was above it.

Multi-Version Concordance Rase (1 Occurrence) Psalms 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. (KJV JPS ASV YLT RSV)