as in degenerate
a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard
was often spotted in sordid places that reinforced a reputation as one of the city's most notorious rakes
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as in slope
the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon
the floor of the auditorium doesn't have much of a rake, so sightlines for spectators in the rear are not good
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as in to search
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
he raked repeatedly through his luggage, hoping that in one of the bags he would find his lost passport before his flight's departure
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Recent Examples of rake
Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 31 Oct. 2025
Boxes of drawings slide from under beds, paintings hang between rakes and lawn tools in the garage.
—Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2025
Work your way up to the scalp, raking the product to ensure that your curls are evenly coated.
—Grace McCarty, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2025
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Noun
Each suspect was arrested on counts of possessing burglary tools — in this case, a rake — and grand theft of fruit, Pedley said.
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Simply rake fallen leaves into garden beds or use them as mulch around trees.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for rake
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Austin Abrams stars as a scuba diver who, while searching for his father’s (Josh Brolin) body, gets swallowed and must find a way to escape.—
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Police are combing through a Chicago condo searching for clues in a double murder case that started more than 300 miles away.—
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The ashes have settled over the charred Louisville neighborhood where nine people remain missing and families cling to hope as investigators comb through the wreckage of Tuesday’s fatal UPS cargo plane crash.—
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He's assembled a team to comb through the details and evidence.—
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Investigators also found eight 9 mm casings fired from a Glock pistol at the scene where Holmes was killed, according to the affidavit.—
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In doing so, the judge found he could not be involved in the handling of the separate probes related to the civil fraud investigation and the NRA.—
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In the film, Emma Stone's Bella Baxter is dredged from the river after dying by suicide, then reanimated by Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), possessing the body of a woman and the brain of a baby.—
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Place flour in a shallow dish; dredge chicken lightly in flour, shaking off excess.—
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After scanning the code, the recipients might be prompted to provide personal or financial information or to download malicious software.—
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Marvel has publicly acknowledged that the studio's productions often scan actors' bodies, though the scans are generally only used for visual effects purposes rather than storing actors' likenesses for future projects.—
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“Rake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rake. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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