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Thesaurus > Related Words: rake

Words related to rake

Related / Similar Words: pitch, slant, profligate, rip, blood, roue, graze, crease, scan, skim, glance over, run down

Definition:
  • a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil;
  • degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch";
  • a dissolute man in fashionable society;
  • scrape gently; "graze the skin";
  • gather with a rake; "rake leaves";
  • level or smooth with a rake; "rake gravel";
  • move through with or as if with a rake; "She raked her fingers through her hair";
  • examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi";
  • sweep the length of; "The gunfire raked the coast";

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    See Also: rake off, rake in, shovel in

    Hyponyms: croupier's rake, garden rake, shave, enfilade

    Entailments: scrape, grate

    Derivational Morphology: cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch, lean, tip, angle, slope, incline, graze, grazing, shaving, skimming, skim

    Anagrams: Kera


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