grate
/ˈɡɹeɪt/ verb C2- To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater. · I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.
- To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something. · Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad.· The chalk grated against the board.
- To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy. · She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to.
- To annoy. · 2015', Art Levy in Florida Trend, Roland Martin is a Florida 'Icon one of the issues that's kind of grating me a little bit is weed control.
He/she/it grates · Past grated · Past participle grated · -ing form grating
Verb forms
- Base form
- grate
- He/she/it
- grates
- Past
- grated
- Past participle
- grated
- -ing form
- grating
From the library
“You see,” continued he, glancing toward the grate, where fragments of burnt paper fluttered in the flames, “the letter is destroyed; you and I alone know of its existence; should you, therefore, be questioned, deny all knowledge of it—deny it boldly, and you are saved.”
The Palais de Justice communicated with the prison,—a sombre edifice, that from its grated windows looks on the clock-tower of the Accoules.
He was conducted to a tolerably neat chamber, but grated and barred, and its appearance, therefore, did not greatly alarm him; besides, the words of Villefort, who seemed to interest himself so much, resounded still in his ears like a promise of freedom.
The prisoner glanced at the windows—they were grated; he had changed his prison for another that was conveying him he knew not whither.
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