adjective

• Harsh-sounding and unpleasant; grating.

  ‘his cracked, rasping voice narrates the story’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Lou turns, sucking in throatfuls of rasping reality.’
  • ‘I just opened my mouth to try and speak and all that I could manage was a rasping croak.’
  • ‘Rich made a rasping sound in his throat vaguely like the creaking of bed springs, followed by a lewd slurping noise.’
  • ‘Jape Devon stepped out of his Warbird as the rasping engines shut down.’
  • ‘A hard rasping sound from around the corner caused him to drop into a tiger stance, arms hard and lithe.’