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Antonyms for raking

Grammar : Verb
Spell : reyk
Phonetic Transcription : reɪk

Definition of raking

Origin :
  • "toothed tool for drawing or scraping things together," Old English raca "rake," earlier ræce, from Proto-Germanic *rak- "gather, heap up" (cf. Old Norse reka "spade, shovel," Old High German rehho, German Rechen "a rake," Gothic rikan "to heap up, collect"), from PIE *reg- (1) "move in a straight line" (cf. Greek oregein "to reach, stretch out," Latin regere "direct, rule; keep straight, guide;" see regal), perhaps via its action, or via the notion of "implement with straight pieces of wood" [Watkins].
  • verb scrape up, hoe
Example sentences :
  • The baker was just raking the fire out of the little door on the side.
  • Extract from : « Buried Cities, Part 2 » by Jennie Hall
  • There's sacrets in all families to be forgotten—bad to be raking the past.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • Yet they were subject to a raking fire that cost them hundreds of casualties.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various
  • They were in the wheat-field, busy with the last sheaves; she raking and he binding.
  • Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
  • Their beams shot down, raking all our vicinity from this new angle.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various
  • Instantly there burst from the blue batteries a tremendous, raking fire.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • When they got his range, Pelham moved his two guns and began again a raking fire.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • All this time Tucker had been manÅ“uvring to secure a raking (p. 123) position.
  • Extract from : « The Naval History of the United States » by Willis J. Abbot.
  • For anything we know somebody may be at work, raking it all up, just now.
  • Extract from : « The Borough Treasurer » by Joseph Smith Fletcher
  • Such preaching is like raking the garden with the teeth upwards.
  • Extract from : « Broken Bread » by Thomas Champness

Synonyms for raking

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