Grate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GRATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to reduce to shreds by rubbing
• reduce (food) to small shreds by rubbing it on a grater
• make an unpleasant rasping sound
• have an irritating effect
• rub into small bits on a rough surface
• To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window.
• To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing.
• To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.
• To fret; to irritate; to offend.
• To make a harsh sound by friction.
• To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity.
• furnish with a grate
• gnaw into; make resentful or angry
• reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface
• make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
• scratch repeatedly
NOUN:
• the recess of a fireplace or furnace
• a metal frame for holding fuel in a fireplace or furnace.
• a grating.
• A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters.
• A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
• a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
• a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something
• a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
• framework of metal bars for holding fuel in a fireplace
ADJECTIVE:
• Serving to gratify; agreeable.

Words related to GRATE

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Words that contain GRATE

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How to use GRATE in a sentence

• When you put them in the oven grate over them a little loaf sugar.
• This is done by placing the meat before an open grate, and keeping it in motion to prevent the scorching on any particular part.
• And the soft crashings of the coals as the fire settled down into the grate became less and less audible as the fire sank and the flames resigned their fierceness.
• A characteristic of his cold, callous temperament was that he took fire slowly, but, once lit, his hate endured like peat coals in a grate.
• You never saw grate bars burn out with a clean ash box.
• The grate was screwed up so tight as to hold no more than a thin sandwich of fire.
• A cheerful fire was burning in an open grate, near which were set a screen and a settle.
• A glance over her shoulder revealed her husband huddled up in a chair in the dirty kitchen, gazing straight before him at the empty grate.
• D is the fire space, E a movable grate, and F the coal hopper.
• When the thermometer is as low as it is now, and when there is no fire in the grate, the sanctity of property as regards fuel becomes a mere abstraction.
• She looked at Fanny with the little smile still on her lips as she lit a candle and burnt the note in its flame, dropping the ashes into the grate.
• He counted the strokes, and gazing at the grate seemed to wait for more.
• Another instant, and, picking up the bar, prying with it again, the loosened stone toppled with a crash into the grate.
• Carlia poked the log in the grate into a blaze, then slyly turned the lamp wick down.
• The white blinds of the two windows were drawn, and a fire burned in the grate, lighting it pleasantly and behaving in a very friendly manner.
• From this tower the grate of the beacon thrust itself forward, and as it still smoked, I inquired the reason.
• That night the photograph taken in Heidelberg, and all the letters Sperry had written her, lay in ashes in her bedroom grate.
• Much wider than the hearth was the fire grate, for we needed a heat that was intense.
• George told how a piece of thick paper was placed on the hearth under the grate and corn dough put upon it to bake.
• Take a large juicy lemon, grate and peel and squeeze out every drop of juice.
• He came in fast, for he expected that the steak would be ready to remove from the grate.
• And he poked the fire, and tried to think You know, our English friends depend almost wholly on the open grate fire, as we do so largely in the South.
• I feel like the parlor grate when the fire has gone out.

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