rasant

From French rasant.

rasant (not comparable)

1. (military, obsolete) sweeping; flanking

   rasant fire

• -sartan, Arants, ratans, sartan, satRNA, satrna, tarans

rasant

1. present participle of raser

rasant (feminine rasante, masculine plural rasants, feminine plural rasantes)

1. shaving (lightly touching)
2. boring (annoying)
   • 1894, Crafty, À travers Paris, page 45:

     C'est rasant de t'entendre toujours parler d’un homme que je n'ai jamais vu.

     It's boring to hear you always talking about a man I've never seen.

• “rasant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

18th century, borrowed from French rasant in the military sense. The sense “rapid” through influence by unrelated German rasen (“to rush”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁaˈzant/

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• Rhymes: -ant

rasant (strong nominative masculine singular rasanter, comparative rasanter, superlative am rasantesten)

1. (military, sports, of a projectile or ball) having a flat trajectory
2. (now the main sense) rapid, turbulent, tempestuous (at great and possibly uncontrolled speed)

   Synonyms: mitreißend, rasend, stürmisch, turbulent

• Rasanz, Rasantheit

• → Czech: razantní

• “rasant” in Duden online
• “rasant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache