| 单词 | rasping |
| 释义 | rasping (once / 4803 pages) adjn Something that's rasping has a harsh, scratchy sound. If your old car's rasping engine gets even louder, you might want to take it to a mechanic. You'll most often find the adjective rasping describing someone's voice: "His rasping singing voice accompanied the choir," or "I was so thirsty after the hike that i could only make a dry, rasping sound when I tried to talk." To rasp means to scrape, from the Old French verb rasper, or "to grate." WORD FAMILYrasping: raspingly, raspings+/rasp: rasped, rasping, rasps, raspy/raspy: raspily USAGE EXAMPLESThe presence of scratches on the inner surface of Alfred’s teeth suggest he was rasping his tongue along the back of them when feeding. The Guardian(Nov 29, 2016) In France’s previous qualifier, he struck the winner in a 1-0 win away to the Netherlands with a rasping 30-meter strike. Washington Times(Nov 11, 2016) Every so often, he lets out a rasping smoker’s cough. The Guardian(Nov 11, 2016) 1adj unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound Syn grating, gravelly, raspy, rough, scratchy cacophonic, cacophonous having an unpleasant sound 2n uttering in an irritated tone Syn|Hyper rasp utterance, vocalization the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication |
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