1[intransitiveI, transitiveT]C to make a roughunpleasant sound 发出刺耳的声音
my father’s rasping voice
我父亲刺耳的嗓音
‘Stop!’ he rasped.
“停下来!”他尖声喊道。
2.[transitiveT]RUB to rub a surface with something rough 擦刮,粗锉
Examples from the Corpus
rasp• Many gastropods are grazers: they use their radula to rasp away at algae.• This can be rasped down effectively to give no further problems.• Sycorax would not replyexcept to rasp her curses.• She touched one of the trees, and the greybark was deeply grooved, rasping her fingers.• Then I heard a voicerasping in my head.• I heard John's voice rasping in the other room.• We went up to the ward, by which time he was making very odd, rasping sounds as he breathed.• He lowered his head into his hands, fingers raspingwhiskers.