raw

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/ɹɔː/

noun 7adj 5name 2adv 1verb 1

Collocations

ADJ.

alone, dry, scratchy, well-known, well-known

Her voice sounded raw and scratchy after shouting at the concert all night.

VERB + RAW

ate, can't, care, comes, don't, eat, eaten, feels

I don't eat raw fish because I'm worried about getting sick.

RAW + NOUN

dinner, indonesia, materials, oysters

She ordered raw oysters at the seafood restaurant and enjoyed them with lemon and hot sauce.

PREP.

about, from, in, until, with

She dealt with raw emotions after hearing the difficult news about her father.

ADV.

easily, often

Emotions ran raw easily when families gathered after years apart.

Definitions

adj

(of food) Not cooked.

There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.

He ate raw beef for dinner.

(of food) Not cooked.

I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.

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 about 0.5 ml.

raw cane sugar

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.[…]’

a raw wound

New or inexperienced.

a raw beginner

adv

Without a condom.

We did it raw.

You know what I be on, I'm about to go raw

noun

An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.

With the recent advance in London yellow crystals, however, the disproportion of the relative value of these two kinds has been considerably reduced, and a better demand for crystallized raws should consequently occur.

Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.

A galled place; an inveterate sore.

A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.

In a moment Tom was angry. The women saw that Bill had touched him upon the raw, and they went out of the room to prepare a meal.

A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.

A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — informal terms for nakedness

altogether

adjective — not processed or subjected to analysis

crude

adjective — (used informally) completely unclothed

adjective — lacking training or experience

adjective — unpleasantly cold and damp

adjective — devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment

naked

adjective — hurting

Antonyms

cooked

Idioms & Phrases

raw deal

A situation in which a person is taken advantage of or treated unfairly; a situation in which a person is led to expect something, but receives either nothing or much less than was expected.

The night Santa went crazy The night St. Nick went insane Realized he'd been gettin' a raw deal Something finally must have snapped in his brain

in the raw

Unprocessed, rough.

I guaranteed him that in both these synagogues hakafot would provide him with music "in the raw."

Example Bank

There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.

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He ate raw beef for dinner.

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I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.

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We did it raw.

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You know what I be on, I'm about to go raw

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, raw is marked as slang, figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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