name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
A dried grape.
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verb
Of fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.
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verb
To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.
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verb
To add raisins to.
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verb
To distribute throughout (with small bits or things), to dot or pepper.
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verb
To shrivel.
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verb
To crush or drain, so that all plumpness and vitality is gone.
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verb
To cause to have wrinkles.
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verb
To form wrinkles; to become wrinkled.
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noun
dried grape
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Broader terms: dried fruit
Narrower terms: seedless raisin, sultana, seeded raisin, currant
History
From Middle English raysyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reysin (“grape, raisin”), from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Possibly a distant cognate of Persian رز (raz, “vine”). Doublet of raceme.
Across languages
117 source translations are retained for this English entry.