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Grammar : Adj
Spell : raw
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Définition of rawest

Origin :
  • Old English hreaw "uncooked, raw," from Proto-Germanic *khrawaz (cf. Old Norse hrar, Danish raa, Old Saxon hra, Middle Dutch rau, Dutch rauw, Old High German hrawer, German roh), from PIE root *kreue- (1) "raw flesh" (cf. Sanskrit kravih "raw flesh," krura- "bloody, raw, hard;" Greek kreas "flesh;" Latin crudus "not cooked," cruor "thick blood;" Old Irish cru, Lithuanian kraujas, Old Church Slavonic kruvi "blood;" Old English hrot "thick fluid, serum").
  • Meaning "tender, sore" is from late 14c.; of persons, "inexperienced" from 1560s; of weather, "damp and chilly" first recorded 1540s. Related: Rawly; rawness. Raw material is from 1796, with sense of "in a rudimental condition, unfinished." Phrase in the raw "naked" (1921) is from the raw "exposed flesh," attested from 1823. Raw deal "harsh treatment" attested by 1893.
  • adj not cooked, prepared
  • adj exposed, tender, referring to skin
  • adj inexperienced
  • adj vulgar, nasty
  • adj harsh, unpleasant, referring to weather
Example sentences :
  • I was probably the highest private and rawest recruit in the army.
  • Extract from : « How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion » by George W. Peck
  • They were about the rawest lot of recruits the sergeant had ever tackled.
  • Extract from : « Anecdotes of the Great War » by Carleton Britton Case
  • The officer in charge of them turned to one of the rawest of his men.
  • Extract from : « Funny Stories Told By The Soldiers » by Carleton B. Case
  • "It is just a chance—just the rawest of all chances," he went on, ignoring my query.
  • Extract from : « Pirates' Hope » by Francis Lynde
  • He had touched the old south in its rawest point and he was too new a citizen.
  • Extract from : « Sons and Fathers » by Harry Stillwell Edwards
  • There's a partial mass-energy conversion in its rawest form.
  • Extract from : « Contamination Crew » by Alan Edward Nourse
  • It is a bright but chilly morning, one of November's rawest efforts.
  • Extract from : « Airy Fairy Lilian » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
  • Primitive society held property in common in the gens and clan, but only in the rawest and most undeveloped stage.
  • Extract from : « Woman under socialism » by August Bebel
  • But the oldest Christian amongst them needed the exhortation as much as the rawest recruit in the ranks.
  • Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) » by Alexander Maclaren
  • A 'Fact,' in the common use of the word, is a particular observation: it is the material of science in its rawest state.
  • Extract from : « Logic » by Carveth Read

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