raw
/ɹɔ/ adjective A2- (of food) Not cooked. · There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.· He ate raw beef for dinner.
- Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food. · I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.
- Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.) · raw cane sugar· raw sewage
- Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. · a raw wound
- New or inexperienced. · a raw beginner
- Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated. · a raw voice
- Uncorrected, without analysis.
- Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather) · a raw wind
Comparative rawer · Superlative rawest
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It was the end of November, and Holmes and I sat, upon a raw and foggy night, on either side of a blazing fire in our sitting-room in Baker Street.
The prospect of an interview with Lord Roberts would not have excited greater wonder and pleasure in a raw subaltern than was now reflected upon the face of Mr.
“Damp and raw.”
I was still rather raw over the deception which had been practised upon me, but the warmth of Holmes’s praise drove my anger from my mind.
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