Definitions for rasping

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rasping rasp·ing

Spelling: [ras-ping, rah-sping]

IPA: /ˈræs pɪŋ, ˈrɑ spɪŋ/

Rasping is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in rasping (aginprs).

Definitions for rasping

noun

1. a tiny piece of material removed by rasping or scraping:
2. raspings, dry bread crumbs.
3. an act of rasping.
4. a rasping sound.
5. a coarse file, used mainly on wood, having separate conical teeth.
6. (in an insect) a roughened surface used in stridulation.

adjective

1. harsh; grating:

verb (used with object)

1. to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
2. to scrape or rub roughly:
3. to grate upon or irritate:
4. to utter with a grating sound:

verb (used without object)

1. to scrape or grate.
2. to make a grating sound.

Origin of rasping

First recorded in 1650-60; rasp + -ing², -ing¹

Examples for rasping

It was brisk and rasping, and the lips through which it passed were curved in scorn.

“You seem to have made up your mind about me,” went on the rasping voice.

That same line you advised, has got three as rasping fences as I should like to meet with.

On the night of the third day the weather cleared and settled, cold and rasping.

Its futile pretentiousness is the rasping irritation of every hour.

We have a phonograph with a rasping voice that plays from morning to night.

"I sh'd be sorry if I wasn't," he answered, in swift, rasping accents.

No rasping essences, none of the exterior of blackness and crêpe.

A rasping sound, like the filing of a saw, came from the tin roof.

Pavel made a rasping sound when he breathed, and he kept moaning.