rake
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Synonyms for rake
gather
rake something up
Synonyms
- call to mind
- dig up
- dredge up
- drag up
- revive the memory of
libertine
Synonyms
- libertine
- playboy
- swinger
- profligate
- lecher
- roué
- sensualist
- voluptuary
- debauchee
- rakehell
- dissolute man
- lech or letch
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Synonyms for rake
an immoral or licentious person
Synonyms
to depart or cause to depart from true vertical or horizontal
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Synonyms for rake
a dissolute man in fashionable society
a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head
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