EGAVE

rasp

About 0.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A coarse file or filelike tool, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
  2. noun The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
    the rasp of her perpetual cough
  3. noun A group of guinea fowl
  4. verb To use a rasp.
  5. verb To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
  6. verb To say in a raspy voice.
  7. verb To work something with a rasp.
    to rasp wood to make it smooth
  8. verb To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
    Some sounds rasp the ear.

Similar words

wood file scraper grate abrade scrape denticle file irritate annoy float

Often followed by

of and in the or to is that on

Word family

rasped rasper raspers rasping raspingly rasps

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