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Roughen

verb
(past & past part. roughened; pres. part. roughening)
1.
Make rough or rougher.






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"Roughen" Quotes from Famous Books



... the prevailing average color of the rocks on which it rests, and mark their water-rolled boulders, of all qualities and sizes, sticking out in bold relief from the surface, like the rock-like protuberances that roughen the rustic basements of the architect, from the line of the wall; but I had no open sesame to form vistas through them into the recesses of the past. I saw merely the stiff pastry matrix of which they are composed, and the inclosed pebbles. But the boulder-clay ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller

... on Fifth Avenue now!" he exclaimed, delighted to see Archie apparelled in a suit rather less pleasing to the eye than his own. "We'll roughen up considerably in our travels and by the time we reach Eliphalet Congdon's broad acres he'll never recognize us as gentlemen he's ...
— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson

... transparent, that I cannot look at her with any pleasure. I declare to you, Anne, when I see a woman with a lively eye, a clear, healthy skin, that shows the air of Heaven visits it daily—it may be, roughly—if it pleases, Heaven to roughen the day,—an elastic, vigorous step, and a strong, cheerful voice, I am ready to fall down and do ...
— The Wedding Guest • T.S. Arthur

... him swim Crowded with happy souls, that take no heed Of the sad eyes that from the night's faint rim Gaze sick with longing on them as they speed With golden gates, that only shut on him; And shapes sometimes from hell's abysses freed Flap darkly by him, with enormous sweep Of wings that roughen wide ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell



Words linked to "Roughen" :   smooth, abrase, change surface, abrade, corrade, rub off, rub down



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