Rasping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RASPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• make a harsh, grating noise
• say in a harsh, grating voice
• scrape or file (something) with a rasp
• (of a rough surface or object) scrape in a painful or unpleasant way
• remove something by scraping it off
NOUN:
• the act of rasping
• a harsh, grating noise
• a coarse file or similar metal tool for scraping, filing, or rubbing down objects of metal, wood, or other hard material.
• uttering in an irritated tone
ADJECTIVE:
• abrasive
• (esp of a noise) harsh or grating
• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to rub with something rough
• a tiny piece of wood removed with a coarse file

Words related to RASPING

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Words that contain RASPING

grasping12 raspings11 raspingly15 engrasping14 graspingly17 graspingness16 graspingnesses18

How to use RASPING in a sentence

• Lyon Playfair has recommended that a good brown bread may be made by rasping down this root with an equal quantity of flour.
• With Tharagavverug the end was coming fast, and in the afternoon his breath came hoarsely, rasping in his throat.
• But the other four were still going strong, and they did four or five miles down the river flat at a rasping pace.
• Eventually the girl began to sing of love, and Joseph echoed the songs in solitude, his voice as rasping and untrue as that of a frog.
• There was a dull, cracking sound and a sort of rasping.
• From behind the furnace were coming the most terrible sounds, rasping noises that fairly frayed the silk of my nerves.
• Tell my old friend, Governor Gerry, that I gave him glory for the rasping with which he rubbed down his herd of traitors.
• The fellow knocked three times with his oar upon wood, and in answer to his summons I heard the rasping of bars and the turning of keys.
• Presently a cart rattled past in the street below, rasping the tense silence.
• The dancing may sometimes lag, but the singing and the rhythmical rasping of the shaman are kept up through the night, interrupted only once or twice, when he sees fit.
• She lay in her bed shaking with nervous dread, and the shrill rasping of the crickets and tree-toads was unendurable.
• If anything his voice was a little more rasping than usual, and his dry words of counsel and advice were spoken in his ordinary hard, practical manner.
• You frustrate their plans for a beautiful death by rasping your tires against the curb, together with your nerves.
• Without strength in his presence, she shuddered under his rasping glance.
• Eric, with a shudder, heard it whistle through the air, and the next instant it had descended on his back with a dull thump, rasping away a red line of flesh.
• We both know how she hated our rasping, and we hate it ourselves.
• He had the same ugly, blinking face and black-furred cheeks and rasping voice.
• There was nothing to break the silence other than the incessant bleating of the goats and the unpleasant rasping call of the mountain jay.
• Then he frowned, as the first noise was followed by the rasping sound of a bench being dragged out of a corner, to a place nearer the stove.
• The low continuous sound of rasping and gnawing of timber which followed heightened the resemblance.
• The man was drenched with perspiration and so nearly exhausted with his suffocating imprisonment, that his voice was rasping and hollow.
• My factory companions drew their vocal inspiration from the bedlam of civilization, the rasping and pounding of machinery, the din which they must out-din to be heard.
• Sometimes I do, and the day Martha gave Mary such a rasping about making money, another thought came besides the apples, and I went that afternoon to see Mrs.

Similar words containing RASP without suffix ing

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