Definitions for raws

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IPA: /rɔ/

Raws is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in raws (arsw).

Definitions for raws

noun

1. a sore or irritated place, as on the flesh.
2. unrefined sugar, oil, etc.

Idioms

1. in the raw, in the natural, uncultivated, or unrefined state: Informal. in the nude; naked:

adjective

1. uncooked, as articles of food:
2. not having undergone processes of preparing, dressing, finishing, refining, or manufacture:
3. unnaturally or painfully exposed, as flesh, by removal of the skin or natural integument.
4. painfully open, as a sore or wound.
5. crude in quality or character; not tempered or refined by art or taste:
6. ignorant, inexperienced, or untrained:
7. brutally or grossly frank:
8. brutally harsh or unfair:
9. disagreeably damp and chilly, as the weather or air:
10. not diluted, as alcoholic spirits:
11. unprocessed or unevaluated:

Origin of raws

before 1000; Middle English; Old English hrēaw, hrǣw; cognate with Dutch rauw, German roh; akin to Latin crūdus raw (see crude), cruor blood, Greek kréas raw flesh

Examples for raws

It was December then, gray and raw, with a wet snow that changed to rain as it fell.

But the raw believability of, say, Magnum photography has been done for.

The raw materials— tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold—were dubbed “conflict minerals.”

But there was a lot of raw violence in the humor of the time.

If milk of this kind must be used, some raw food should be given with it.

raw eel seemed to be popular during and after the Middle Ages.

The script would be used as more than just raw material, but would need to be fudged.

Closer to her than the hospital was life in the raw that night.

I should have judged that you were a raw recruit in the camp of the enemy.

Most of these are raw boys, who know all that can be learned of war on a cricket field.