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raser

French, verb/ʁa.ze/

raser is a French verb meaning “to shave” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tondre, couper le poil ou les cheveux tout près de la peau avec un rasoir”.

What does raser mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to shave

  2. 2

    to brush, lightly touch

  3. 3

    to raze (level to the ground)

  4. 4

    informalto bore someone

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Tondre, couper le poil ou les cheveux tout près de la peau avec un rasoir. 2. Couper le poil de la barbe au plus près de la peau. 3. Abattre à ras de terre, en parlant d’un édifice ou d’un bâtiment. 4. Ôter à un navire la partie supérieure de ses œuvres mortes.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of raser

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • rasant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • rasé participle past
  • rase first-person indicative present
  • rases indicative present second-person
  • rasons first-person indicative plural
  • rasez indicative plural present
  • rasent indicative plural present
  • rasais first-person imperfect indicative
  • rasait imperfect indicative singular
  • rasions first-person imperfect indicative
  • rasiez imperfect indicative plural
  • rasaient imperfect indicative plural
  • rasai first-person historic indicative
  • rasas historic indicative past
  • rasa historic indicative past
  • rasâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce raser?

  • /ʁa.ze/
  • /ʁɑ.ze/
  • \ʁɑ.ze\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to raser

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is raser in French?

raser appears 4.5 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).