rawadjective
uk/rɔː/us/rɑː/raw adjective (NOT COOKED)
B1 (of food) not cooked:
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- Discover how eating raw food helps balance your body and aids digestion.
- Helen made a grimace of disgust when she saw the raw meat.
- Peppers are usually cooked with other vegetables or eaten raw in salads.
- Prawns are grey when they're raw, and turn pink when they're cooked.
- People can become infected after eating raw or undercooked meat.
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Various qualities of food
- citrus
- cordon bleu
- creamy
- crisp
- crispy
- crunchy
- diabetic
- fatty
- hoppy
- instant
- isotonic
- kosher
- lean
- mild
- store-bought
- sugar-coated
- sugar-free
- unbleached
- undercook
- unsliced
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raw adjective (NOT PROCESSED)
B2 (of materials) in a natural state, without having been through any chemical or industrial process:
Raw information has been collected but has not yet been studied in detail:
used to refer to a person who is not trained or is without experience:
Feelings or qualities that are raw are natural and difficult to control:
A piece of writing that is raw is one that does not try to hide anything about its subject:
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- Our chief expenditure is on raw materials.
- In this period, there were 974 outbreaks of communicable disease attributed to the consumption of raw milk.
- The selling price barely covered the cost of the raw materials.
- Until recently the country's economy has been insulated from recession by its reserves of raw materials.
- The drains spew (out) millions of gallons of raw sewage into the river.
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Industry & industrial processes
- carding
- compression moulding
- deindustrialization
- die cutting
- heavy industry
- industrialization
- industry-wide
- injection moulding
- just-in-time
- light industry
- machine carding
- mining
- plastic
- prebuilt
- prefabricated
- quality assurance
- quality control
- rustbelt
- tertiary
- vulcanized
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raw adjective (PAINFUL)
sore or painful because of being rubbed or damaged:
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Pain & painful
- -racked
- achy
- agonizing
- cluster headache
- dodgy
- earache
- hell
- masochism
- non-ulcer stomach pain
- painful
- painfully
- rack
- racking
- shooting pains
- sore
- suffering
- tender
- throb
- torment
- wince
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raw adjective (COLD)
used to describe weather that is very cold:
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Cold
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- biting
- bitter
- bitterly
- bone-chilling
- cooling
- dank
- freeze
- freezing
- frigid
- frigid zone
- frostbite
- ice-cold
- icy
- nip
- occluded front
- perished
- stone-cold
- windchill
- wintry
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