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rasp

verb

1 enamel is rasped off the edges of the horse's teeth:

scrape, file, rub, abrade, grate, sand, sandpaper, scratch, scour;

technical excoriate.

2 ‘What's going on?’ he rasped:

croak, say/utter hoarsely, squawk, shrill, caw.

3 her hard, metallic voice rasped his nerves:

grate on, jar on, irritate, irk;

get on someone's nerves, set someone's teeth on edge;

British, informal rub up the wrong way.

noun

the rasp of the engine:

grinding, grating, scraping, scrape, scratching, scratch.

rasp Oxford Dictionary of English