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unraked

unraked

6.3
Left with leaves or debris that people have not gathered
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈreɪkt/
translation icon : sin rastrillar
  • The garden looked messy because the lawn was covered with unraked leaves.

Examples

  • We spent hours gathering the unraked leaves that had fallen last autumn.

  • Your unraked leaves are blowing over to my property.

    The Book of Henry (2017)

  • The streetlights had chilly halos, and Fred Lively, her landlord, was out searching for unraked leaves.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • After the storm, the yard was filled with unraked debris from the trees.

Synonyms

uncleared
vsunraked
1 5.3

Still covered by things like trees, snow and rubbish

is narrower, meaning left because it was not gathered with a rake
unshoveled
vsunraked
  • US
5.0

Not cleared of snow so it still covers a path or road

focuses on material left because no rake was used to gather leaves

Surface Forms

unraked positive

Morphology

unraked = raked (transparent) = un + rake + ed

The adjective is formed by adding 'un-' (not) to the participial adjective 'raked', producing the straightforward negative meaning 'not raked'.

Etymology

Unraked is made of un- meaning 'not' and rake meaning 'to gather with a tool that has long teeth'. So unraked means 'not gathered with a rake', which is why it describes leaves or debris left on a lawn or in a garden.