The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - rake° v.

1) Often, rake up. scrape together, gather (together or up) , collect, draw together: You really must rake up the leaves from the lawn and burn them. 2) scrape, comb, scratch, grate, graze: Don't you just hate the sound of a fingernail being raked across a blackboard? 3 rake in. collect, gather (up or in) , pull in, make: Pamela is raking in the royalties from her latest thriller. 4) rake it in. coin money, make money (hand-over-fist) , Brit coin it in: The new record shop in the mall is really raking it in. 5) rake out. sift (out) , screen, remove, clear, eliminate: Please rake out the cinders from the grate. 6) rake over or through. search, probe, ransack, scour, comb, rummage through, pick through or over, go through or over (with a fine-tooth(ed) comb) , rifle (through) : The police raked through her entire flat but found nothing incriminating. 7) rake up. a See 1, above. b revive, resuscitate, resurrect, raise, bring up, recall: Must you persist in raking up those bad memories? 8 rake up or together. gather, scrape up or together, collect, drag together, pick up, dig up, dredge up, find, unearth: Were you able to rake up the others for a game of poker tonight?