单词 | rasp |
释义 | rasp —raspish, adj. /rasp, rahsp/, v.t. 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. v.i. 5. to scrape or grate. 6. to make a grating sound. n. 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. [1200-50; ME raspen < OF rasper to scrape, grate < Gmc; see RAPE3] |
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