<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object)<ul><li>to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.</li><li>to scrape or rub roughly: The glacier rasped the valley floor.</li><li>to grate upon or irritate: The sound rasped his nerves.</li><li>to utter with a grating sound: to rasp out an answer.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act of rasping.</li><li>a rasping sound.</li><li>a coarse file, used mainly on wood, having separate conical teeth.</li><li>(in an insect) a roughened surface used in stridulation.</li></ul>