An archaic or obsolete term meaning to scrape, erase, or scratch away something; to destroy or demolish.
From Old French araser or arase, from Latin radere (to scrape or rasp). Related to 'abrade' and 'razor,' all sharing roots about scraping.
Arace is basically the medieval ancestor of 'erase'—if you wrote on parchment and wanted to remove ink, you literally had to scrape (arace) it away before you could write over it!
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