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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 rasping
 (a.)銼磨聲的,令人焦躁的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rasp v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rasped p. pr. & vb. n. Rasping.]
 1. To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.
 2. Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 rasping
      adj : unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
            [syn: grating, gravel, gravelly, raspy, rough]
      n : uttering in an irritated tone [syn: rasp]