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grating

English

  1. 🔊 unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
    “a gravelly voice”
  2. 🔊 optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it
  3. 🔊 a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
  4. 🔊 a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

Similar words

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