grate

1. (transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.Examples: "to grate a window"transitive

1. (transitive, cooking) To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.Examples: "I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked."transitive

2. (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.Examples: "1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part 3 Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling The gate suddenly grated. It was Lestiboudois; he came to fetch his spade, that he had forgotten. He recognised Justin climbing over the wall, and at last knew who was the culprit who stole his potatoes."; "The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one."; "Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad."intransitive

3. (by extension, intransitive) To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.Examples: "She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to."broadlyintransitive

4. (by extension, transitive) To annoy.Examples: "2015, Art Levy in Florida Trend, Roland Martin is a Florida 'Icon' one of the issues that's kind of grating me a little bit is weed control."; "News, my good lord Rome […] grates me."broadlytransitive

1. (obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable.Examples: "Coho or Coffee[…]however ingrate or insapory it seems at first, it becomes grate and delicious enough by custom."obsolete