Synonyms of the word rasp


RASPABRADE - ABRASE - CORRADE - FILE - MOUTH - RASPING - SPEAK - TALK - UTTER - UTTERANCE - VERBALISE - VERBALIZE - VOCALIZATION

rasp

  • n. A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a…
  • n. The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
  • n. (obsolete) The raspberry.
  • v. (intransitive) To use a rasp.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
  • v. (transitive) To work something with a rasp.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.

abrade

  • v. (transitive) To rub or wear off; erode.
  • v. (transitive) To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate.
  • v. (transitive) To irritate by rubbing; chafe.
  • v. (transitive) To cause the surface to become more rough.
  • v. (intransitive) To undergo abrasion.
  • v. (transitive) Obsolete spelling of abraid.

abrase

  • adj. (obsolete) Rubbed smooth or blank.
  • v. (transitive) To wear down; rub clean; smoothen; abrade.

corrade

  • v. (obsolete) To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
  • v. (geology) To erode, as the bed of a stream.
  • v. (obsolete) To scrape or rake together; to accumulate laboriously.

file

  • n. A collection of papers collated and archived together.
  • n. A roll or list.
  • n. Course of thought; thread of narration.
  • n. (computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
  • v. (transitive) To commit official papers to some office.
  • v. (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
  • v. (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
  • v. (intransitive, with for, chiefly law) To make a formal request for the benefit of an official status.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To set in order; to arrange, or lay away.
  • n. A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a large group with many files side…
  • n. (military) A small detachment of soldiers.
  • n. (chess) one of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter)…
  • v. (intransitive) To move in a file.
  • n. A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing…
  • n. (slang, archaic) A cunning or resourceful person.
  • v. (transitive) To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
  • v. (archaic) to defile.
  • v. to corrupt.

mouth

  • n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
  • n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
  • n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
  • n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
  • n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
  • n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
  • n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
  • n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
  • n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
  • v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
  • v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
  • v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
  • v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
  • v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
  • v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

rasping

  • adj. raspy.
  • v. present participle of rasp.
  • n. A rasping sound.

speak

  • v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
  • v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
  • v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
  • v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
  • v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
  • v. (transitive) To utter.
  • v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
  • v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
  • n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
  • n. Speach, conversation.
  • n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

talk

  • n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
  • n. A lecture.
  • n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
  • n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
  • n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
  • n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
  • v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
  • v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

utter

  • adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
  • adj. (obsolete) Outward.
  • adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
  • v. (transitive) To say.
  • v. (transitive) To use the voice.
  • v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
  • v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
  • adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

utterance

  • n. An act of uttering.
  • n. Something spoken.
  • n. The ability to speak.
  • n. Manner of speaking.
  • n. (obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
  • n. (obsolete) Putting in circulation.
  • n. (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).

verbalise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

  • v. To speak or to use words to express.
  • v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

vocalization

  • n. The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance.
  • n. Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation.
  • n. The use of speech to express an idea.
  • n. (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise.
  • n. (orthography) The vowel diacritics in Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are…
  • n. (phonology) The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds…

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