0 present participle of rasp
1 to make a rough unpleasant sound, especially while breathing or speaking:
They have the ability to bore through the shells of other molluscs with a rasping technique, which eventually enables them to eat the animal inside.
His voice is loud, forced, and unpleasantly rasping, at times he gasps out individual words loudly.
It is a soft rock, probably consolidated volcanic ash, said to be extracted from a cave in a ravine by means of rasping.
Indeed, anything above the rasping of teeth or the most basic requirements should be carried out only by fully qualified veterinary surgeons.
The tone of his speech throughout was rather rasping.
I do not know the name of his constituency, but he has a rasping voice.
I have tried coughing and rasping.
He spoke about my rasping methods.
