Synonyms for half-raw

Grammar : Adj

Spell : raw

Phonetic Transcription : rɔ

Définition of half-raw

Origin : Old English hreaw "uncooked, raw," from Proto-Germanic *khrawaz (cf. Old Norse hrar, Danish raa, Old Saxon hra, Middle Dutch rau, Dutch rauw, Old High German hrawer, German roh), from PIE root *kreue- (1) "raw flesh" (cf. Sanskrit kravih "raw flesh," krura- "bloody, raw, hard;" Greek kreas "flesh;" Latin crudus "not cooked," cruor "thick blood;" Old Irish cru, Lithuanian kraujas, Old Church Slavonic kruvi "blood;" Old English hrot "thick fluid, serum").
Meaning "tender, sore" is from late 14c.; of persons, "inexperienced" from 1560s; of weather, "damp and chilly" first recorded 1540s. Related: Rawly; rawness. Raw material is from 1796, with sense of "in a rudimental condition, unfinished." Phrase in the raw "naked" (1921) is from the raw "exposed flesh," attested from 1823. Raw deal "harsh treatment" attested by 1893.

As in rare : adj not fully cooked

Example sentences :

I replied, as I looked at the half-raw, half-burned delicacy.
Extract from : « Brownsmith's Boy » by George Manville Fenn

The Colonel tore a piece off the half-charred, half-raw pancake.
Extract from : « The Magnetic North » by Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

Though perhaps a basket of rare fruits—but then he might not eat them; those Englishmen live mostly on half-raw meat.
Extract from : « Red Eve » by H. Rider Haggard

The boy ate ravenously of the half-raw meat, as Smith had done, but the old man waited patiently till it was well boiled.
Extract from : « Stories Of Ohio » by William Dean Howells

Breakfast was like the supper of the preceding night—half-raw beef, eaten cold, and a whiff from a short pipe.
Extract from : « General Bounce » by G. J. Whyte-Melville

Mr. Shaw still looks as if a half-raw beefsteak and a mug of Bass would do him a world of good.
Extract from : « Iconoclasts » by James Huneker

Punctuality is now impossible; the food is half-raw, and often many hours after time.
Extract from : « The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 1 of 2 » by Edward Tyas Cook

Antonyms for half-raw

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