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raw
(redirected from touched on the raw)

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raw
Untouched. Original. Contrast with "processed" or "cooked." See raw data and native capacity. See also RAW file.
raw
1. (of the skin, a wound, etc.) having the surface exposed or abraded, esp painfully
2. (of spirits) undiluted
3. (of the weather) harshly cold and damp

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(meteorology)
Colloquially descriptive of uncomfortably cold weather, usually meaning cold and damp, but sometimes cold and windy.


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One local columnist even recently compared the local BBC's reticence to commission works on Troubles-related themes to the 1960s when broadcasters and theatre directors and impresarios refused to stage Belfast writer Sam Thompson's play Over the Bridge because it touched on the raw nerve of sectarianism in the workplace at a time when Northern Ireland was meant to be at peace.
 
 
 
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