What is "raspier"

Usage examples of "raspier".

Steve said, his voice raspier than usual as he looked around the hospital room that had been home to him for more days than he cared to remember.

His rough voice was even raspier than usual from breathing the cold air.

Though the voice was far raspier than any he knew intimately, there was something familiar in its dry huskiness and crisp northern accent.

The voice was deeper and raspier than Tanalasta recalled, but its dry northern accent left no doubt in her mind that it belonged to her husband.