rasp

rasp is a 4-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.
2. transitive verb. Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.
3. verb. A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
4. verb. The raspberry.
5. noun. a coarse file with sharp pointed projections
6. noun. uttering in an irritated tone

   Synonyms: rasping

7. verb. utter in a grating voice
8. verb. scrape with a rasp

Synonyms

rasping

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rasp:

pars, raps, spar

Common word forms

rasps, rasped, rasper, rasping

Words from these letters

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