rasped's Usage Examples:

She brought her lips to his ear and rasped softly, "I'll be dipped in shit before I let a misogynist pig like you lay a hand on me.

"Now," the woman rasped.

He reached out and grasped her arm as she walked by.

Maas, Die craspedoten Medusen der Plankton Expedition, by permission of Lipsius and Tischer.

With characteristic zeal and impetuosity Schelling had no sooner grasped the leading ideas of Fichte's amended form of the critical philosophy than he put together his impressions of it in his Über die Möglichkeit einer Form der Philosophie überhaupt (1794).

His letters during his service in Congress show that he had fully grasped the questions at issue, that he was under no delusions as to the outcome of the struggle over taxation, and that he expected war.

He grasped her waist and lifted her bodily from the saddle.

She rose, albeit unsteadily, and he grasped her in the now familiar position of his supporting arm about her waist.

"Tell me, Seer, what do you See?" he rasped in the inhuman voice.

He stumbled as he climbed the steps to the pulpit and grasped the podium like a life preserver.

"He grabbed her arm, locked eyes with her and rasped through gritted teeth, "You need to stay away from me.

She grasped his hand and came out of the chair with his assistance.

And, above all, it should not be forgotten, in justice to Shaftesbury's memory, that "during his long political career, in an age of general corruption, he was ever incorrupt, and never grasped either money or land.

Synonyms:

vocalization, rasping, utterance,

Antonyms:

keep quiet, incomplete, mitigated, specify,