as in degenerate
a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard
was often spotted in sordid places that reinforced a reputation as one of the city's most notorious rakes
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as in slope
the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon
the floor of the auditorium doesn't have much of a rake, so sightlines for spectators in the rear are not good
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as in to search
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
he raked repeatedly through his luggage, hoping that in one of the bags he would find his lost passport before his flight's departure
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Recent Examples of rake
Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
Aerodynamic rakes are metal fence-like structures covered in sensors that are typically positioned around the front axle or rear axle and diffuser.
—Yara Elshebiny, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2025
Then, rake the compost in so that the grass blades are mostly exposed above the compost layer, and water your entire lawn well.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Use a bow rake, with forged metal tines, to grade and smooth the terrain.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
Aerodynamic rakes are metal fence-like structures covered in sensors that are typically positioned around the front axle or rear axle and diffuser.
—Yara Elshebiny, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Verb
Prepare the planting bed by removing existing weeds, rocks, and other debris and raking the surface smooth.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2025
Then, rake the compost in so that the grass blades are mostly exposed above the compost layer, and water your entire lawn well.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rake
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After running the financial models and tallying the costs associated with the new levies, Liss set off to Asia in March to search for an alternative business plan.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
2 Apr. 2025
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Police are searching for a man who shoved a 61-year-old straphanger off a Brooklyn subway platform — just minutes before a train was due at the station.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
2 Apr. 2025
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Nearly a week after the quake, searchers in neighbouring Thailand hunting for survivors combed a mountain of debris left after a skyscraper in the capital, Bangkok, collapsed while under construction.—
Reuters,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
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Tasking Leave-in Hair Treatment and combed through her entire head for an even application.—
Catherine Santino,
People.com,
1 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Officers responded to the 800 block of N 70th Avenue around 9:30 p.m. Saturday and found Javon Brown, 19, and Delorean Jackson, 20, outside a home with gunshot wounds.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2025
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June eventually found herself at Serena’s mercy and was spared; June then, as luck would have it, delivered Serena’s baby and was later reunited with Luke.—
Abigail Lee,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2025
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Thaw them, cut them, and then dredge it and deep fry it and then stir fry it.—
Bon Appétit,
Bon Appétit,
19 Mar. 2025
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Use the straw as a single chopstick to dredge the fruit up to the rim?—
Judith Martin,
Sun Sentinel,
29 Jan. 2025
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Guests who have opted into the biometric journey will be asked to scan their passport and look into the camera of one of the biometric face pods which will then validate their information.—
Robin Raven,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Possibly this is because they were built by scanning edited and airbrushed photos—not just of professionally attractive people, but of us.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2025
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“Rake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rake. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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