The meaning of Rake

verb

Scrape or wear away by friction or erosion.

Usage examples:

It was a landscape slowly abraded by a fine, stinging dust

noun

A person who commits adultery.

Usage examples:

By the late eighteenth century, new england law enforcers arrested few fornicators or adulterers, t…

noun

A married person who has sex with someone who is not their wife or husband

Usage examples:

Her husband was a compulsive adulterer.

noun

The sharp explosive cry of a dog, fox, or seal.

Usage examples:

As i tucked into this steaming bunter-sized platter out on the darkening waters, i swear i heard th…

verb

(of a dog, fox, or seal) give a bark.

Usage examples:

A dog barked at her

verb

Strip the bark from (a tree or piece of wood).

Usage examples:

They had to be barked by hand, you couldn't peel them the way you can newly cut wood

proper noun

(1725–98), italian adventurer; full name giovanni jacopo casanova de seingalt. he is famous for his memoirs describing his sexual encounters and other exploits.

noun

A man notorious for seducing women.

Usage examples:

‘i myself used to be a casanova - i was such a womaniser’, one youth told an evaluator.

verb

Bring or gather together (a number of things).

Usage examples:

He went round the office collecting old coffee cups

adjective

(of a phone call) paid for by the person receiving it.

Usage examples:

A collect call

adverb

(with reference to making a phone call) in a way that is paid for by the person receiving it.

Usage examples:

I called my mother collect

noun

A person given to excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs.

Usage examples:

Within a few years, carbonneau, ‘a debauchee and libertine’ had frittered away her money on dubious…

noun

A debauched person (= one who drinks too much alcohol, takes drugs, shows bad sexual behaviour, etc.)

Usage examples:

He gave a convincing stage performance as the unpleasant young debauchee., he was condemned as a 's…

adjective

Having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.

Usage examples:

A degenerate form of a higher civilization

noun

An immoral or corrupt person.

Usage examples:

Get out of my house, you degenerate!

verb

Decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally.

Usage examples:

The quality of life had degenerated

verb

Damage or remove part of the surface of (the skin).

Usage examples:

The discharge is acrid and excoriates the skin of the nose

verb

To write or say that a play, book, political action, etc. is very bad

Usage examples:

His latest novel received excoriating reviews., the president excoriated the western press for thei…

verb

Come together; assemble or accumulate.

Usage examples:

As soon as a crowd gathered, the police came

noun

A part of a garment that is gathered.

Usage examples:

This can be accomplished at side seams, the center back seam, gathers, pleats, darts or a combinati…

verb

Assemble or get together

verb

Reduce (food) to small shreds by rubbing it on a grater.

Usage examples:

Peel and roughly grate the carrots

noun

The recess of a fireplace or furnace.

Usage examples:

A small coal fire burned in the grate

noun

Reduce to shreds by rubbing against a perforated surface

verb

(of cattle, sheep, etc.) eat grass in a field.

Usage examples:

Cattle graze on the open meadows

noun

A slight injury where the skin is scraped.

Usage examples:

Cuts and grazes on the skin

verb

To touch and rub against something while passing it, causing slight damage

Usage examples:

The bullet only grazed his leg., [ i ] cows grazed in the field.

verb

Tear or make deep cuts in (flesh or skin).

Usage examples:

The point had lacerated his neck

verb

To cut or tear something, esp. flesh

Usage examples:

His face and hands were lacerated by the flying glass., [ c ] justina was treated for a scalp lacer…

noun

A lecherous man.

Usage examples:

A vile drunken lecher

noun

A lecherous person

noun

A person, especially a man, who freely indulges in sensual pleasures without regard to moral principles.

Usage examples:

His image as an unbridled libertine is a total myth

adjective

Characterized by free indulgence in sensual pleasures.

Usage examples:

His more libertine impulses

noun

A person, usually a man, who has few moral principles and has sexual relationships with many people

Usage examples:

She considers him an arrogant, dandified libertine., the infamous libertine casanova was more compl…

noun

A man who behaves selfishly and irresponsibly in his sexual relationships with women.

Usage examples:

They are seduced by a handsome lothario who gains control of their financial affairs

noun

A man who has sex with a lot of different women

Usage examples:

She managed to turn a legendary lothario into a devoted husband.

noun

An area of flat, dried-up land, especially a desert basin from which water evaporates quickly.

Usage examples:

This landscape of jagged mountains, desert playas, and massive canyons has yielded woolly-mammoth s…

noun

See player (sense 1).

noun

A person taking part in a sport or game.

Usage examples:

A tennis player

noun

A wealthy man who spends his time enjoying himself, especially one who behaves irresponsibly or has many casual sexual relationships.

Usage examples:

He isn't the marrying type, he's just a playboy

noun

A person taking part in a sport or game.

Usage examples:

A tennis player

adjective

Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.

Usage examples:

Profligate consumers of energy

noun

A licentious, dissolute person.

Usage examples:

He is a drunkard and a profligate

noun

A harsh, grating noise.

Usage examples:

The rasp of the engine

verb

Make a harsh, grating noise.

Usage examples:

My breath rasped in my throat

noun

A debauched man, especially an elderly one.

Usage examples:

He had lived the life of a roué in the fleshpots of london and paris

verb

Drag or pull a hard or sharp implement across (a surface or object) so as to remove dirt or other matter.

Usage examples:

Remove the green tops from the carrots and scrape them

noun

An act or sound of scraping.

Usage examples:

He heard the scrape of his mother's key in the lock

verb

Cut the surface of; wear away the surface of

verb

Score or mark the surface of (something) with a sharp or pointed object.

Usage examples:

The car's paintwork was battered and scratched

noun

A mark or wound made by scratching.

Usage examples:

The scratches on her arm were throbbing

adjective

Assembled or made from whatever is available, and so unlikely to be of the highest quality.

Usage examples:

City were fielding a scratch squad

noun

A person who entices someone into sexual activity.

Usage examples:

A serial seducer with no moral compass

noun

Someone who seduces people

Usage examples:

The play tells the story of a wealthy woman who seeks revenge on her heartless seducer.

noun

A large-headed piece of metal that pierces and projects from a surface, especially for decoration.

Usage examples:

The shape of the headrest follows zulu style, but brightly coloured plastics, insulation tape and m…

verb

Decorate or augment (something) with many studs or similar small objects.

Usage examples:

A dagger studded with precious diamonds

noun

An establishment where horses or other domesticated animals are kept for breeding.

Usage examples:

A stud farm

noun

A man who engages in numerous casual sexual affairs with women.

Usage examples:

A notorious womanizer who married four times

noun

A man who often has temporary sexual relationships with women or tries to get women to have sex with him

Usage examples:

He was a gambler, a womanizer, and a drunk., he had a reputation as a family man, but was actually …