rasp
verb (used with object)
to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
have rasped
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present perfectof rasp.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Year after weary year, seeing no one, never going anywhere, they have rasped and worn each other merely by being what they are.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
A half-hour spent so would have rasped the nerves of the most phlegmatic man in the town, and Jack was not phlegmatic; fifteen minutes of watching that silent weeping sufficed to bring a muffled explosion.
From The Gringos by Anton Otto Fischer
Were those innocent men to blame if he happened to have rasped nerves?
From Atlantis by Adele Szold Seltzer
