raw

There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.

I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.

Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.

Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.

1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:

raw cane sugar

raw sewage

Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)

‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

a raw wound

Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.

a raw beginner

a raw voice

Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.

What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.

2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010

(statistics, of data) Uncorrected, without analysis.

a raw wind

a raw and gusty day

1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

[…] I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, […]

1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter I, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 1:

He made Yossarian think of cripples and of cold and hungry men and women, and of all the dumb, passive, devout mothers with catatonic eyes nursing infants outdoors that same night with chilled animal udders bared insensibly to that same raw rain.

1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 428:

raw emotion

Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)

a raw description of the American political arena

Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.

Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)

with scull all raw

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11:

en-adj

raw (comparative rawer, superlative rawest)

rawer (comparative)
rawest (superlative)

необработен

of data, statistics etc: uncorrected, without analysis

From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).
Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.


raw

We did it raw.

You know what I be on, I'm about to go raw

2020, “What You Know Bout Love”, performed by Pop Smoke:


raw

With the recent advance in London yellow crystals, however, the disproportion of the relative value of these two kinds has been considerably reduced, and a better demand for crystallized raws should consequently occur.

1800, Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, Lousiana Sugar Chemists' Association, American Cane Growers' Association, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, volume 22, page 287:

Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.

1921, “The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry”, in American Chemical Society, Volume 13, Part 1, page 149:

The world sugar contract closed 1 to 3 points net higher, with sales of only 36 lots. London raws sold at 8s. 4½d., and futures there were unchanged to 3d. higher.

1939, The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Volume 148, Part 2, page 2924:

(sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.

sugar refining; sugar trade; sugar refining; sugar trade

In a moment Tom was angry. The women saw that Bill had touched him upon the raw, and they went out of the room to prepare a meal.

(by extension, figurative) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.

(anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.

(manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.

生肉

anime fandom: a recording or rip that has not been fansubbed

生肉

manga fandom: a scan that has not been cleaned and scanlated


raw

(slang, transitive) To sexually penetrate without a condom.

en-verb

raw (third-person singular simple present raws, present participle rawing, simple past and past participle rawed)

raws (present singular third-person)
rawing (participle present)
rawed (participle past)
rawed (past)