adjective
Many vegetables can be eaten raw
The raw sugar is shipped to the plant where it is refined. The raw statistics revealed that many women had refused to respond to the questionnaire
They sent us raw recruits who had never seen battle
When he mentioned her name, it was as if he had touched a raw nerve
You should wrap up warmly if you're going out in that raw wind
The producer felt that no domestic audience could stomach a raw depiction of the horrors of war
noun
For punishment, they made us stand outside, in the freezing cold, in the raw
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