rasp

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The surgeon removes the hump using a chisel or a rasp, then brings the nasal bones together to form a narrower bridge.

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  1. transitive verb To file or scrape with a coarse file having sharp projections.
  2. transitive verb To utter in a grating voice.
  3. transitive verb To grate on (nerves or feelings).
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  • There was no suggestion of a rasp, a clack or a whir. —  039 - The Seven Agate Devils
  • I'm four There was a rasp, a sharp intake of breath behind her, and then the room flooded with light. —  The Mistress's Secret
  • The words came out as a rasp, as if her mouth was very dry. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 02 - August 2002
  • It made it impossible for her to think clearly, to make sense of what was going on She heard Robin's sword rasp in the sheath as he drew it. —  KISSED BY SHADOWS
  • Under his excellent mask (the black splotches ever rearranging themselves), Haley would win a hammy-rasp contest against Christian Bale, and as the preening, demented billionaire Veidt, a.k.a. Ozymandias, Matthew Goode speaks with a lack of inflection that's very amusing.
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

hoarse ·  throaty ·  raucous ·  husky ·  hiss ·  harsh ·  croak ·  scrape ·  rattle ·  raspy ·  growl ·  inarticulate

Used in the same contextWord Family

rasp:   rasping ·  rasps ·  rasped
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English raspen, from Middle Dutch raspen and Old French rasper, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English raspen, rospen, from Old French rasper, French râper, scrape, grate, rasp, =Spanish Portuguese raspar =Italian raspare, scrape, rasp, from Middle Latin raspare, scrape, rake, from Old High German raspōn, Middle High German raspen, scrape together (cf. D. Middle Low German raspen =Middle High German freq. raspelen, German raspeln, rasp, =Danish raspe =Swedish raspa, rasp, in part from the noun); cf. Old High German hrcspan, Middle High German respen, rake together, pluck; Icelandic rispa, scratch (later Scots risp); prob. from the root of Old High German *raffon, Middle High German G. raffen, etc., seize: see rap. Cf. rasp, n. Hence ult. (prob.) rapier.
  2. =D. Danish Swedish rasp =G. raspe, from Old French raspe, French râpe (later G. rappe) (=Italian raspa), a rasp, grater, from rasper, French râper, grate, rasp, file: see rasp, v.
  3. Formerly also respe, also raspis, raspise, raspice, respass (with occasional plural raspisses), apparently orig, plural, properly raspes (the berries), used as singular (the bush, and later transferred to a single berry?), prob. from rasp, n., or abbreviation of raspberry, from rasp + berry, with reference to its rough outside; cf. Italian raspo, a raspberry (Florio): see rasp.
  4. Cf. German räuspern, hawk or clear the throat; prob. imitative.
 

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