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adjective
1.
harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
noun
2.
a minute piece removed by rasping: raspings of sawed wood.
3.
raspings, dry bread crumbs.
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Rasping
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verb (used with object)
1.
to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
2.
to scrape or rub roughly: The glacier rasped the valley floor.
3.
to grate upon or irritate: The sound rasped his nerves.
4.
to utter with a grating sound: to rasp out an answer.
verb (used without object)
5.
to scrape or grate.
6.
to make a grating sound.
noun
7.
an act of rasping.
8.
a rasping sound.
9.
a coarse file, used mainly on wood, having separate conical teeth.
10.
(in an insect) a roughened surface used in stridulation.
Related forms
rasp·ish, adjective
un·rasped, adjective
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Word Origin & History
rasp
c.1300, "to scrape," from M.Du. raspen, O.Fr. rasper "to grate, rasp," from a W.Gmc. source (cf. O.E. gehrespan) akin to the root of raffle (q.v.). Vocalic sense is from 1843. The noun meaning "coarse file" is from 1540s, from M.Fr. raspe, from O.Fr. rasper "to rasp."
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