rasping

[ ras-ping, rah-sping ]
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adjective
  1. harsh; grating: a rasping voice.

noun
  1. a tiny piece of material removed by rasping or scraping: raspings of sawed wood.

  2. Cooking.raspings, dry breadcrumbs.

Origin of rasping

1
First recorded in 1650–60; rasp + -ing2, -ing1

Other words from rasping

  • rasp·ing·ly, adverb
  • rasp·ing·ness, noun
  • un·rasp·ing, adjective

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How to use rasping in a sentence

  • I cannot make out to be anything but raspingly, harrowingly sad; so I will close, and not affect levity which I cannot feel.

  • His lips grew stiff and painfully hot, and when he tried to moisten them his tongue was dry and moved across them raspingly.

    Hyacinth | George A. Birmingham
  • Raspingly and distinctly above the clatter-clatter of the hand car, a voice shouted from below.

  • In the dugout, except for two men who snored loudly, raspingly, everyone was quiet.

    One Man's Initiation--1917 | John Dos Passos
  • The Earl shivered convulsively, choked raspingly, and was suddenly limp and still.

    Millennium | Everett B. Cole

British Dictionary definitions for rasping

rasping

raspy (ˈrɑːspɪ)

/ (ˈrɑːspɪŋ) /


adjective
  1. (esp of a noise) harsh or grating; rough

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