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rake has 13 distinct synonyms spread across 4 of its 9 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
move through with or as if with a rake
“She raked her fingers through her hair”
level or smooth with a rake
“rake gravel”
examine hastily
“She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi”
degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
“the roof had a steep pitch”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for rake come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil