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informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit" untempered and unrefined; "raw talent"; "raw beauty" unpolished having the surface exposed and painful; "a raw wound" injured inflamed and painful; "his throat was raw"; "had a sore throat" unhealthy brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal" unfair lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits"; "he was still wet behind the ears when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel" inexperienced not treated with heat to prepare it for eating half-baked, rare, uncooked, untoasted not processed or refined; "raw sewage" untreated devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power" overt not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" unanalyzed unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" cold (used informally) completely unclothed unclothed |
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