RAKING Synonyms

• a group of persons together in one place

• the social act of assembling

• the act of gathering something

• sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching

• the gathering of a ripened crop

• get or gather together

• increase in amount by collecting or gathering

• the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets

• temperament or disposition

• a dissolute man in fashionable society

• the hereditary derivation of an individual

• people viewed as members of a group

• smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill

• an angular or rounded shape made by folding

• a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface

• a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade

• make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic

• make wrinkled or creased

• scrape gently

• become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

• a superficial abrasion

• the act of grazing

• feed as in a meadow or pasture

• break the skin (of a body part) by scraping

• let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

• scrape gently

• eat lightly, try different dishes

• the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration

• the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it

• a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)

• promotion by means of an argument and demonstration

• degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

• any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

• a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer

• a high approach shot in golf

• an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump

• abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)

• the action or manner of throwing something

• throw or toss with a light motion

• move abruptly

• fall or plunge forward

• set to a certain pitch

• sell or offer for sale from place to place

• be at an angle

• heel over

• erect and fasten

• throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball

• hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin

• lead (a card) and establish the trump suit

• set the level or character of

• a dissolute man in fashionable society

• a recklessly extravagant consumer

• recklessly wasteful

• unrestrained by convention or morality

• a dissolute man in fashionable society

• a dissolute man in fashionable society

• an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

• a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current

• the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

• tear or be torn violently

• move precipitously or violently

• cut (wood) along the grain

• take without the owner's consent

• criticize or abuse strongly and violently

• a dissolute man in fashionable society

• the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region

• an image produced by scanning

• examine minutely or intensely

• examine hastily

• make a wide, sweeping search of

• conform to a metrical pattern

• move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image

• read metrically

• obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources

• a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid

• reading or glancing through quickly

• used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed

• travel on the surface of water

• move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of

• examine hastily

• cause to skip over a surface

• coat (a liquid) with a layer

• remove from the surface

• read superficially

• a biased way of looking at or presenting something

• degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

• lie obliquely

• present with a bias

• to incline or bend from a vertical position

• heel over

• examine hastily