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rakes over

rakes over is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rake over.

Meaning of rake over

Verb

rake over (third-person singular simple present rakes over, present participle raking over, simple past and past participle raked over)

  1. (idiomatic) To discuss something unpleasant from the past.
    • Tristam Darling [the narrator character] describes Florence by saying, among other things, "She had no bosom, a deficiency I always thought in a woman like a bed without a pillow."(!) Gordon [the author] rakes over every female character in the book in a similar way. No woman is treated positively...1979 April 28, Flame B. James, “Still Private”, in Gay Community News, page 14

Questions about rakes over

What is rakes over the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rakes over is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rake over.

Words near rakes over in the dictionary

  1. rakes
  2. rakes in
  3. rakes it in
  4. rakes off
  5. rakes out
  6. rakes over
  7. rakes over old coals
  8. rakes over the coals
  9. rakes together
  10. rakes up
  11. rakeshame

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