Usually means: Scraping, grating sound or action.
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  1. rasping: Merriam-Webster
  2. rasping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rasping: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rasping: Vocabulary.com
  5. rasping: Wordnik
  6. rasping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. rasping: Wiktionary
  8. rasping: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Rasping, rasping: Dictionary.com
  10. Rasping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. rasping: Rhymezone
  12. Rasping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. rasping: FreeDictionary.org
  14. rasping: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. rasping: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rasping: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rasping: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tea Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rasping: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rasp as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rasping)

adjective:  raspy
adjective:  exasperating
adjective:  (sports) Pushing forward with great force.
noun:  A sound that rasps.
noun:  The act of rasping as with a file.

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