rasp
verb (used with object)
to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
had rasped
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past perfectof rasp.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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A brake had locked the left rear wheels; friction against the runway had rasped the tires down to the rims and ignited the rubber.
From Time Magazine Archive
It climaxed in a duel between M. Georges Chapreau and M. le Marquis Henri de Sombrieul, both star reporters, who had rasped each other's nerves.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Burr-r-r-r!" shuddered Nort, when he saw that it was a snake, and not a lariat that had rasped him.
From The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis by Willard F. Baker
She did not feel in a gentle mood towards Sue; her voice and words had rasped her nerves for the last hour.
From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Jennie M. Drinkwater
Ida May Bostwick had rasped all the finer feelings of the captain of the Seamew.
From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
