| 单词 | raspy |
| 释义 | raspy (once / 41040 pages) adj A sound is raspy when it is rough or scratchy. If you get a bad cold or scream encouragement to a losing team for a few hours, you will end up with a raspy voice. A rasp is a tool, usually used by wood- or metal-workers, to scrape. Nail files and kitchen graters do the same work that a rasp does. A raspy voice sounds like it had to pass through a rasp or a grater to get out of your mouth. If you can barely speak, you might ask for water in a raspy whisper. Other sounds can seem raspy too like a dry cough, the caw of a crow or the bark of a dog that has been at it for a long time. WORD FAMILYraspy: raspily+/rasp: rasped, rasping, rasps, raspy/rasping: raspingly, raspings USAGE EXAMPLESHer voice is bruised and broken, angry and strong, raspy as whiskey and sober and clear. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) With every raspy breath, Osama’s ribs protruded through his dry skin. Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) Moreover, there’s something suspiciously choreographed about the way MacLeish and his wife narrate their meet-cute, and his raspy, dead-eyed whisper gives me chills. New York Times(Nov 16, 2016) adj unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound Syn grating, gravelly, rasping, rough, scratchy cacophonic, cacophonous having an unpleasant sound |
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