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Raw

adjective

(compar. rawer; superl. rawest)

1.

(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes. Synonyms: natural, rude. "Natural produce" , "Raw wool" , "Raw sugar" , "Bales of rude cotton"

2.

Having the surface exposed and painful.

3.

Not treated with heat to prepare it for eating. Antonym: cooked.

4.

Not processed or refined.

5.

Devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure. Synonym: naked. "Raw fury" , "You may kill someone someday with your raw power"

6.

Brutally unfair or harsh. "A raw deal"

7.

Not processed or subjected to analysis. Synonym: crude. "The raw cost of production" , "Only the crude vital statistics"

8.

Untempered and unrefined. "Raw beauty"

9.

Hurting. Synonyms: sensitive, sore, tender.

10.

Unpleasantly cold and damp. Synonyms: bleak, cutting.

11.

Used of wood and furniture. Synonym: unsanded.

12.

Lacking training or experience. Synonym: new. "Raw recruits"

13.

(used informally) completely unclothed. Synonyms: bare-ass, bare-assed, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked as a jaybird, peeled, stark naked.

noun

1.

Informal terms for nakedness. Synonyms: altogether, birthday suit. "In the altogether" , "In his birthday suit"

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... was, not to net, but to lasso the bear; and for that purpose he had provided four powerful ropes made of strips of raw, undressed buffalo hide, plaited, with a running ...

— The Prairie Chief • R.M. Ballantyne

... the rack. He walked into the house and brought out his roll of blankets that he never took with him except on long rides, and his "slicker," and his longest stake-rope of plaited raw-hide. These he began to tie deliberately upon his saddle. Santa, ...

— Heart of the West • O. Henry

... safely. If social structure were rational its free expression would be so too. Many observers, with no particular philosophy to adduce, feel that the arts among us are somehow impotent, and they look for a better inspiration, now to ancient models, now to the raw phenomena of life. A dilettante may, indeed, summon inspiration whence he will; and a virtuoso will never lack some material to keep him busy; but if what is hoped for is a genuine, native, inevitable art, a great revolution would first have to be worked ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... governor will have me strangled, and they will take me to my grave with ropes of raw hide and there will not any where be a sad heart for ...

— The Flute of the Gods • Marah Ellis Ryan

... by Mr. Cunningham to be one of those who waded into the water to receive the presents from him the preceding evening: he was very inquisitive about our clothes, and expressed the greatest astonishment at everything he noticed about us. He ridiculed our repugnance to partake of a piece of the raw gut of a turtle which he offered to us, and to expose our folly, ate a piece, which he appeared to think a dainty, although it was quite fetid from putrefaction. Our attempts to collect a vocabulary of their language were quite unsuccessful. ...

— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia - Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 • Phillip Parker King

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