RASPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rasping mean? 

• RASPING (noun)
  The noun RASPING has 1 sense:

1. uttering in an irritated tone

  Familiarity information: RASPING used as a noun is very rare.

• RASPING (adjective)
  The adjective RASPING has 1 sense:

1. unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

  Familiarity information: RASPING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RASPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uttering in an irritated tone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rasp; rasping

Hypernyms ("rasping" is a kind of...):

utterance; vocalization (the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication)

Derivation:

rasp (utter in a grating voice)

• RASPING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

Synonyms:

grating; gravelly; rasping; raspy; rough; scratchy

Context example:

a gravelly voice

Similar:

cacophonic; cacophonous (having an unpleasant sound)

 Context examples 

“What’s the meaning of this?” I heard him say at last in a dry, rasping tone.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then it seemed as though I were being dragged over rasping sands, white and hot in the sun.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He could make a louder rasping growl than any of them.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Behind him, with his toe ever rasping upon the other's heels, there walked a very stern, black-bearded man with a hard eye and a set mouth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His words were quiet, but he had a rasping way of saying them which was very menacing.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Rasping up on either side, with oars trailing to save them from snapping, they poured in a living torrent with horrid yell and shrill whoop upon the defenceless merchantman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I heard the rasping, laboured breathing of the sick man.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I passed my hand over the horny projections, and my teeth went on edge once more from the horrible rasping sensation produced.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He had begun to romp with them in a feeble, awkward way, and even to squabble, his little throat vibrating with a queer rasping noise (the forerunner of the growl), as he worked himself into a passion.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Well might John rejoice, for was he not back in his native Hampshire, had he not Don Diego's five thousand crowns rasping against his knee, and above all was he not himself squire now to Sir Alleyne Edricson, the young Socman of Minstead lately knighted by the sword of the Black Prince himself, and esteemed by the whole army as one of the most rising of the soldiers of England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)