verb/ʁa.ze/
to shave; to brush, lightly touch; to raze (level to the ground); to bore someone
“Le digne homme n'imagine pas combien il peut raser les élèves avec des propos de ce genre ; chez lui si sincères qu'ils découragent l'ironie.” — The dignified man cannot imagine how much he can bore his students with ideas of this kind, which to him are so sincere that they discourage irony.
Inherited from Old French raser, from Vulgar Latin *rāsāre, a frequentative verb formed from Latin rāsus, past participle of rādō. Compare Italian rasare.