Collocations for "raw"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "raw" in context.
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raw
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- [don't, shouldn't] eat raw [meat, fish, potato]
- [love, hate] raw [meat]
- am on a raw food diet
- raw or [cooked, processed, undercooked]
- [process, gather] raw [data, information]
- [extract, mine, process, gather] raw materials (for)
- [the break up, the loss, her death] is still raw
- look at [his, its] raw power
- left his [flesh, skin, knee] raw
- my [wound, cut, throat] [is, feels] raw
- the [wound, pain] is still raw
- raw [sounds, images, recordings]
- the [jokes, jibes, comments] were raw
- a raw [worker, recruit, soldier, player]
- they got a raw deal
- has the raw talent to [succeed, become]
- [slept, sunbathed, swam, played] in the raw
- [nature, lions, animals] in the raw
- showed [gang violence, prison life, the sex trade] in the raw
'raw' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
almond
- batter
- cane
- carrot
- celery
- chicken
- cockroach
- data
- eat
- egg
- emotion
- hide
- honey
- image
- leather
- leek
- mackerel
- manufacture
- material
- meat
- mussel
- outgoing
- oyster
- parsnip
- passion
- potato
- procurement
- produce
- quarry
- recruit
- refined
- seafood
- seaweed
- selection
- sewage
- spaghetti
- sugar
- supplier