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v. To reduce to fragments, shreds, or powder by rubbing against an abrasive surface.

v. To cause to make a harsh grinding or rasping sound through friction: grated her teeth in anger.

v. To irritate or annoy persistently.

v. Archaic To rub or wear away.

verb-intransitive. To make a harsh rasping sound by or as if by scraping or grinding.

verb-intransitive. To cause irritation or annoyance: a noise that grates on one's nerves.

n. A harsh rasping sound made by scraping or rubbing: the grate of a key in a lock.

n. A framework of parallel or latticed bars for blocking an opening.

n. A framework of metal bars used to hold fuel or food in a stove, furnace, or fireplace.

n. A fireplace.

n. A perforated iron plate or screen for sieving and grading crushed ore.

v. To equip with a grate.

n. A horizontal metal grille through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.

v. To shred things, usually foodstuffs, by rubbing across a grater.

v. To rub against, making a (usually unpleasant) squeaking sound.

v. To grate on one’s nerves; to irritate or annoy.

adj. Serving to gratify; agreeable.

n. A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters.

n. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.

v. To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.

v. To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; ; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing.

v. To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented.

v. To fret; to irritate; to offend.

verb-intransitive. To make a harsh sound by friction.

verb-intransitive. To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity.

To rub together or against strongly so as to produce a harsh scraping sound: as, to grate the teeth.

To reduce to small particles by rubbing or rasping with something rough or indented: as, to grate a nutmeg or the peel of a lemon.

To affect harshly and painfully, as if by abrasion; fret.

To produce a harsh or jarring sound of, as by the friction of rough bodies.

To scratch or scrape with; use for attrition or abrasion.

To make a harsh or rasping sound by friction or attrition; give out a scraping noise.

To produce a harsh impression; cause irritation or chafing.

n. A grater.

n. A partition made with bars parallel to or crossing one another; a framework of bars in a door, window, hatchway, or other opening.

n. A frame of metal bars in which fuel is burned, especially coal.

n. The floor of a fire-box or furnace, formed of a series or group of bars; the bottom of a furnace, on which the fuel rests, and through which it is supplied with air.

n. In metallurgy: A perforated metal plate used in the stamping of ores, through which the pounded ore passes.

n. A screen.

n. An ore-roasting furnace with a grate revolving horizontally.

To furnish with a grate or grates; fill in with cross-bars: as, to grate a window.

Pleasant; agreeable.

v. make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together

n. a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something

n. a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

v. gnaw into; make resentful or angry

v. scratch repeatedly

n. a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

v. reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface

v. furnish with a grate

"A moderate fire in the grate is the only mode of heating, and they seem quite oblivious to the danger of throwing a door open into a cold hall at one's back, while the servants pass in and out with the various courses at dinner."

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