rasped

Verb

rasp (third-person singular simple present rasps, present participle rasping, simple past and past participle rasped)

1. (intransitive) To use a rasp.
2. (intransitive) To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
3. To say in a raspy voice.
   • “No. I am going to feed you to the children,” rasped Burt, his laugh rattling around his throat, prising Dad’s fingers one by one off his apron.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN
4. (transitive) To work something with a rasp.
   • to rasp wood to make it smooth
5. (ambitransitive, figuratively) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
   • Some sounds rasp the ear.

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