"rake over" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-rake over.ogg [Australia] Forms: rakes over [present, singular, third-person], raking over [participle, present], raked over [participle, past], raked over [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} rake over (third-person singular simple present rakes over, present participle raking over, simple past and past participle raked over)
  1. (idiomatic) To discuss something unpleasant from the past. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: dig up
    Sense id: en-rake_over-en-verb-ziSwQnej Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (over)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for rake over meaning in English (1.8kB)

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