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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024rasp /ræsp/USA pronunciation v. - to scrape or grate with or as if with a rough instrument: [~ + object]You can feel the kitten's rough little tongue rasping your hand.[no object]rasping on your hand.
- to irritate:[~ (+ on) + object]The sound rasped (on) his nerves.
- to say with a grating sound: [~ (+ out) + object]to rasp (out) an order.[~ + object (+ out)]She rasped an order (out) to her secretary.
n. [countable] - an act of rasping.
- a rasping sound.
- Buildinga coarse file having separate cone-shaped teeth.
rasp•ing, rasp•y, adj., -i•er, -i•est. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024rasp (rasp, räsp),USA pronunciation v.t. - to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
- to scrape or rub roughly:The glacier rasped the valley floor.
- to grate upon or irritate:The sound rasped his nerves.
- to utter with a grating sound:to rasp out an answer.
v.i. - to scrape or grate.
- to make a grating sound.
n. - an act of rasping.
- a rasping sound.
- Buildinga coarse file, used mainly on wood, having separate conical teeth.
- (in an insect) a roughened surface used in stridulation.
- Gmc; see rape3
- Old French rasper to scrape, grate
- Middle English raspen 1200–50
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