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Marple helps speed up maceration for harder ingredients like ginger and celery by blending, grating, or otherwise breaking them down.

From Eater

They Came Together to Make the World ListenTo Gross, the idea that Cosby got out on a “technicality,” as many tellings would have it, is a grating reduction of a complicated and important process we rely on to produce justice.

From Time

He’s going about it in his wide-eyed, can’t-we-all-get-along way that his colleagues might find grating if it weren’t so sincere.

He fell into a metal rail on the conveyor belt system, “stood up, took a few steps, and fell back onto the grating,” according to the TOSHA report.

Using a food processor fitted with coarse grating attachment, or the large holes of a box grater, grate the potatoes.

“Go on then,” she said, as if humoring a grating younger sibling.

But as the season wore on and her grating nerve wore down, I actually really warmed up to her.

Marlow: I also found Soso really grating at first, but like you said, that was the intention.

A stout woman with a grating voice, she asked, “So you think life is so good here in Ukraine?”

Four years after “Safety Dance,” Men Without Hats returned with the grating ‘Pop Goes the World.’

I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring.

I do not know—I do not dare to believe—that I shall live to hear that key grating in the lock.

Before he realised what had taken place he found himself thrown on the floor, while strange grating noises reached his ears.

But what is that monotonous grating sound which continues with mechanical regularity?

Beside this door was a heavy iron grating, opening upon a sort of corridor, which gave a little light and a little air.

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On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to grating, such as: annoying, displeasing, dry, grinding, jarring, and offensive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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