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rawer

rawer is the comparative form of raw.

Meaning of raw

Adjective

raw (comparative rawer, superlative rawest)

  1. (of food) Not cooked.
    • There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.
    1. Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
      • I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.
  2. Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
    • Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was...1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63
  3. Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
    • ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  4. New or inexperienced.
    • a raw beginner
  5. Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
    • a raw voice

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Questions about rawer

What is rawer the comparative form of?
Rawer is the comparative form of raw.

Words near rawer in the dictionary

  1. Rawdon Island
  2. Rawdon Vale
  3. Rawdons
  4. Rawe
  5. rawed
  6. rawer
  7. Rawes
  8. rawest
  9. rawhead and bloodybones
  10. rawhide
  11. rawhided

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