rake over
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.38 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To discuss something unpleasant from the past.
Example Sentences
- "Tristam Darling [the narrator character] describes Florence by saying, among other things, "She had no bosom, a deficiency I always thought in a woman like a bed without a pillow."(!) Gordon [the author] rakes over every female character in the book in a similar way. No woman is treated positively without being abused."