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vb. (context idiomatic English) To discuss something unpleasant from the past.
Usage examples of "rake over".
Kadara tightens her lips, and her eyes rake over both her father and Oran before coming to rest on Dorrin.
He thought it seemed a long time had passed for the Admiral to want to rake over the Capraia affair.
Some curled and hooked, trying to rake over him, but none touched him.
Surely to God they weren't going to rake over the whole wretched business again.
Those few, usually taking positions in dead space to rake over the People as they galloped over crests or around hills or buildings, had taken a fearful toll.
He could call him Heller-Wister and rake in and rake over ALL the earlier stories, spreading them throughout the entire Confederacy.
In the field to the right she could see Aunt Annie heading off with a rake over her shoulder, probably to do something about the new potatoes she had just planted.