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Grated

Grated \Grat"ed\, a. [From 2d Grate.] Furnished with a grate or grating; as, grated windows.

Grated

Grate \Grate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grated; p. pr. & vb. n. Grating.] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window.

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grated
  1. 1 Produced by grate. 2 Furnished with a grate or grating. v

  2. (en-past of: grate)

Usage examples of "grated".

The sound grated out of Tor as the Thek stopped in the designated site.

Agony lanced through Itkovian as the jagged point drove through skin and grated against his lowest rib close to the spine.

A fat column of cables and pipes came out of the ceiling, entered and exited a massive meter box covered with dials, and disappeared into a grated opening in the floor.

Railly grated out the words, "one day, Parollan, you're going to outsmart yourself!

In one corner of the room, a weedy boy with long red hair tied in a black velvet bow tinkered with his synthocom set, producing occasional bursts of strident sound that grated on Sev's eardrums.

Keff listened with his teeth clenched as the slowed-down chirrups grated through the speakers like chains being dragged up a gravel road.

Despite a southern softness, the girl's voice grated in their ears and was echoed by an intense mental shout that caused both Daffyd and Sally to shake their heads.

She was still thrashing her arms when her legs grated against a hard surface.

Now the Fort Weyr Headwoman was filled with aggrieved indignation at the fancied slight to her Weyrwoman, and her voice grated like a bone saw in Moreta's ear.

Both hands on the hilt of his decorative blade, F'lar rammed it through wher-hide until it grated against the man's ribs.

Steel clashed and grated all about him, men screamed and died, and a Guardsman loomed suddenly before him, sword thrusting for his throat, and there was no time to dodge.

His teeth grated and ground as he gnawed and bit at Mandorallen's helmeted head.

Their discussions, hovering just on the verge of wrangling, grated on Garion's nerves almost as much as the tiresome clanging of the bells on Mulger's mules.

Silk, however, seemed relaxed and confident as always, and his behavior and attitude grated at Garion's nerves, for some reason.

Their voices had a roynish sound that grated on Covenant's nerves-he had too many horrid memories of ur-viles -but he suppressed his discomfort, tried not to think balefully of Vain.