"crase" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "crases",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crasing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "crased",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "crased",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1580, Cyprian, translated by William Fulke, “[Epistle]”, in William Fulke, A Retentive to Stay Good Christians, in True Faith and Religion […], page 269",
          "text": "[…] verily it behoueth them ouer whome wee haue rule, not to runne about, neither by their craftie & deceitful rashnes to crase the concord of Byshops agreeing togither […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1606, James VI and I, “Scedula Jocalium, Coronæ Angliæ annexatorum”, in Robert Sanderson, editor, Foedera, Conventiones, Literæ, Et Cujuscunque Generis Acta Publica, Inter Reges Angliæ […], volume 16 (overall work in Latin), published 1615, page 643",
          "text": "Imprimis, The Imperiall Crowne of this Realme of Goulde, the Border garnished with seaven Ballaces, eight Saphiers, five pointed Diamonds, twenty Rubies two of them being crased, nineteen Pearls […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1614, William Bradshaw, The Unreasonableness of the Separation […], published 1640, page 123",
          "text": "[…] had Maister Can had either any shame in his forehead, or wit in his head-piece, he would never have adventured in so shamefull, or shameles rather, a manner, to vent so evident an untrueth, against his owne eye-sight and the open view of all men, and thereby to crase & crack, yea to wrack, not his conscience only, but his credite too.",
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        "Early Modern spelling of craze (“break into pieces, crack”)."
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          "craze#English"
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    {
      "form": "crases",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crasing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crased",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crased",
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          "ref": "1580, Cyprian, translated by William Fulke, “[Epistle]”, in William Fulke, A Retentive to Stay Good Christians, in True Faith and Religion […], page 269",
          "text": "[…] verily it behoueth them ouer whome wee haue rule, not to runne about, neither by their craftie & deceitful rashnes to crase the concord of Byshops agreeing togither […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1606, James VI and I, “Scedula Jocalium, Coronæ Angliæ annexatorum”, in Robert Sanderson, editor, Foedera, Conventiones, Literæ, Et Cujuscunque Generis Acta Publica, Inter Reges Angliæ […], volume 16 (overall work in Latin), published 1615, page 643",
          "text": "Imprimis, The Imperiall Crowne of this Realme of Goulde, the Border garnished with seaven Ballaces, eight Saphiers, five pointed Diamonds, twenty Rubies two of them being crased, nineteen Pearls […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1614, William Bradshaw, The Unreasonableness of the Separation […], published 1640, page 123",
          "text": "[…] had Maister Can had either any shame in his forehead, or wit in his head-piece, he would never have adventured in so shamefull, or shameles rather, a manner, to vent so evident an untrueth, against his owne eye-sight and the open view of all men, and thereby to crase & crack, yea to wrack, not his conscience only, but his credite too.",
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