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arace

arace verb: to tear up by the roots; to draw away.

Verb

arace (third-person singular simple present araces, present participle aracing, simple past and past participle araced)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To tear up by the roots; to draw away.
    • I had my thought, and mynde araced1557, Thomas Wyatt, “Complaint upon Love to Reason”, in Tottel's Miscellany

Forms of arace

third-person singular presentaraces
present participlearacing
past participlearaced
pastaraced

Origin of arace

From Middle English aracen, arasen, from Old French arachier, esracier (modern French arracher), from Latin exradicare, eradicare. The prefix a- is perhaps due to Latin ab. See eradicate.

Questions about arace

What does arace mean?
Arace means to tear up by the roots; to draw away.
What part of speech is arace?
Arace is a verb.
What is the past tense of arace?
The past tense of arace is araced.

Words near arace in the dictionary

  1. aracanid
  2. aracanids
  3. aracari
  4. aracaris
  5. aracas
  6. arace
  7. araced
  8. Araceli
  9. Aracelis
  10. Aracena
  11. Aracenas

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