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raw
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- pronunciation:
- raw
- features:
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| inflections: |
rawer, rawest |
| definition 1: |
When something is raw, like meat or a vegetable, it is not cooked. A salad usually has a lot of raw vegetables.
It's good to make sure that your chicken is cooked all the way through before eating it because raw chicken can make you very sick.Marian would rather eat raw carrots instead of cooked carrots. She likes how raw carrots are crunchy.- synonyms:
- crude
- antonyms:
- cooked
- similar words:
- fresh, natural
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| definition 2: |
When your skin is raw, it is sore.
The nurse's hands were raw from washing her hands so frequently.Oliver scratched the rash on his leg until the skin was raw. His mother gave him some ointment to make it feel better.- synonyms:
- sore
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| definition 3: |
When the weather is cold and a little wet, we sometimes say it is raw.
The weather was raw on Halloween night, so the children had to wear jackets over their costumes.- synonyms:
- bitter, chilly, icy
- similar words:
- brisk, chill, cold, crisp, damp, harsh, nasty, wet
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| definition 4: |
When we talk about raw materials, we mean materials that come from the earth and have not yet been processed in any way by humans.
The factory needs raw materials to make steel. |
| derivations: |
rawly (adv.), rawness (n.) |
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