rake
verb/reɪk/
/reɪk/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they rake | /reɪk/ /reɪk/ |
| he / she / it rakes | /reɪks/ /reɪks/ |
| past simple raked | /reɪkt/ /reɪkt/ |
| past participle raked | /reɪkt/ /reɪkt/ |
| -ing form raking | /ˈreɪkɪŋ/ /ˈreɪkɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] to pull a rake over a surface in order to make it level or to remove something
- rake (something) (+ adv./prep.) The leaves had been raked into a pile.
- (figurative) She raked a comb through her hair.
- rake something + adj. First rake the soil smooth.
- [transitive] rake something (with something) to point a camera, light, gun, etc. at somebody/something and move it slowly from one side to the other
- They raked the streets with machine-gun fire.
- Searchlights raked the grounds.
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. to search a place carefully for something
- She raked around in her bag for her keys.
- [transitive, intransitive] rake (something) to scratch the surface of something with a sharp object, especially your nails
Word Originverb Old English raca, racu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch raak and German Rechen, from a base meaning ‘heap up’; the verb is partly from Old Norse raka ‘to scrape, shave’.
Idioms
See rake in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryrake somebody over the coals (North American English)
(British English haul somebody over the coals)
- to criticize somebody severely because they have done something wrong
- I was raked over the coals by my boss for being late.
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