1. not cooked
2. in natural state; not processed or refined
3. painful and red from being rubbed or injured

1. a sensitive or painful area of skin

Examples

• Don’t eat raw chicken because it can make you sick.
• The factory processes raw materials into finished products.
• His hands were raw from the cold wind.
• It was a raw February morning with freezing rain.
• The raw recruit had never held a rifle before.
• She gave him the raw truth about his performance.
• The bandage rubbed against the raw on his heel.