Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3verb
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.
- 4verb
The raspberry.
- 5noun
a coarse file with sharp pointed projections
- 6noun
uttering in an irritated tone
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- 7verb
utter in a grating voice
- 8verb
scrape with a rasp
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