i Register
In some senses, rase is marked as archaic, figuratively, obsolete, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage.
[T]he ſtones did ſeem / Too roare and bellow hoarce: and doggs too howle and raze extréeme: […]
So up & down that critic rased / & back & foorth he foyned & trased / & monstrous strookes deliverd; […]
verb
Alternative spelling of race (“to pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something)”).
[T]his Night / He dreamt, the Bore had raſed off his Helme: […]
But doom the arm that perils not / In beauty's quarrel, every vein / That runs with ruddy drops, to rot / Beneath a taunting chain, / And that ignoblest hands should rase / The crest and spur from one so base.
verb
Alternative spelling of raze.
[T]he fire-dragon had rased the coastal region and reduced forts and earthworks to dust and ashes, so the war-king planned and plotted his revenge.
Alternative spelling of raze.
The fortreſſe was raſed and beaten downe to the erthe⸝ whiche had coſt moche the makynge therof: […]
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jeruſalem; who ſayd, raſe it, raſe it: euen to the foundation thereof.
Alternative spelling of raze.
It is true, the Devil did not immediately raſe out the Notion of Religion and of a God from the Minds of Men, […]
Alternative spelling of raze.
Suppleyng to Fame, I besought her grace, / And that it wolde please her, full tenderly I prayd, / Owt of her bokis Apollo to rase.
[N]o malice of ſucceeding daies, / can raſe thoſe records of thy laſting praiſe.
Alternative spelling of raze.
For vvas he not in the neareſt Neighbourhood to Death? And might not the Bullet, that perhaps raſed his Cheek, have as eaſily gone into his Head?