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rag

English

  1. 🔊 a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
  2. 🔊 a small piece of cloth or paper
  3. 🔊 a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
  4. 🔊 newspaper with half-size pages
  5. 🔊 music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
  6. 🔊 break into lumps before sorting
    “rag ore”
  7. 🔊 play in ragtime
    “rag that old tune”
  8. 🔊 cause annoyance in
    “Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me”
  9. 🔊 treat cruelly
    “The children tormented the stuttering teacher”
  10. 🔊 harass with persistent criticism or carping
    “The children teased the new teacher”
  11. 🔊 censure severely or angrily
    “The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 argamandel rag
  2. 🔊 arrapiezo rag
  3. 🔊 harapo rag
  4. 🔊 mengajo rag
  5. 🔊 piltrafa rag
  6. 🔊 pingajo rag
  7. 🔊 chirajo rag, tatter
  8. 🔊 zarria rag, tatter
  9. 🔊 cagada rag, mischief
  10. 🔊 trapo rag, piece of cloth used for cleaning, washing or drying (tea towel, dish towel, dish cloth, dust cloth, paper towel)

Similar words

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