rake
rake /r'eɪk/ (rakes raking raked)
1 [N-COUNT]
A rake is a garden tool consisting of a row of metal or wooden teeth attached to a long handle. You can use a rake to make the earth smooth and level before you put plants in, or to gather leaves together.
2 [VERB] V n
If you rake a surface, you move a rake across it in order to make it smooth and level.
Rake the soil, press the seed into it, then cover it lightly...
3 [VERB] V n adv/prep
If you rake leaves or ashes, you move them somewhere using a rake or a similar tool.
I watched the men rake leaves into heaps...rake in
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), also V n P
If you say that someone is raking in money, you mean that they are making a lot of money very easily, more easily than you think they should. (INFORMAL)
The privatisation allowed companies to rake in huge profits.rake over
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron)
If you say that someone is raking over something that has been said, done, or written in the past, you mean that they are examining and discussing it in detail, in a way that you do not think is very pleasant.
Nobody wanted to rake over his past history.rake up
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), also V n P
If someone is raking up something unpleasant or embarrassing that happened in the past, they are talking about it when you would prefer them not to mention it.
Raking up the past won't help anyone.
= drag up
1 [N-COUNT]
A rake is a garden tool consisting of a row of metal or wooden teeth attached to a long handle. You can use a rake to make the earth smooth and level before you put plants in, or to gather leaves together.
2 [VERB] V n
If you rake a surface, you move a rake across it in order to make it smooth and level.
Rake the soil, press the seed into it, then cover it lightly...
3 [VERB] V n adv/prep
If you rake leaves or ashes, you move them somewhere using a rake or a similar tool.
I watched the men rake leaves into heaps...rake in
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), also V n P
If you say that someone is raking in money, you mean that they are making a lot of money very easily, more easily than you think they should. (INFORMAL)
The privatisation allowed companies to rake in huge profits.rake over
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron)
If you say that someone is raking over something that has been said, done, or written in the past, you mean that they are examining and discussing it in detail, in a way that you do not think is very pleasant.
Nobody wanted to rake over his past history.rake up
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), also V n P
If someone is raking up something unpleasant or embarrassing that happened in the past, they are talking about it when you would prefer them not to mention it.
Raking up the past won't help anyone.
= drag up