rasp
verb (used with object)
to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
rasped
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past participleof rasp.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof rasp.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
raspverb (used with object)to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
Example Sentences
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Hospitalized and on oxygen, Linderman cut a grainy video in which he rasped out “this is how bad it is,” then admitted he had made a catastrophic error by not getting vaccinated.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
“Testes, testes, one, two, three!” a voice rasped over the sound system in a cheeky Southern drawl.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2018
Jackson, perhaps unable to leave her character's acrimony at the stage door, foiled my attempts to understand how she made sense of A's changing relationship to B and C. "What relationship?" she rasped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2018
In the ambulance, in her husband’s arms, she rasped out with her last breath the words: “Phil … I love you, Phil.”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2016
The dry earth was ticking under the sun and the crickets rasped.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
