Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become rough.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make rough; bring into a rough condition.
- To grow or become rough.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To grow or become rough.
- transitive verb To make rough.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
rough . - verb intransitive To become rough.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make rough or rougher
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Examples
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After firing a pot, they would roughen its surface and apply chaute, a mixture of charcoal, oil of sage seed and a glue-like substance from the camote tuber.
Guachimontones: unearthing a lost world near Teuchitlan, Jalisco 2009
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Where previously the pursuit of truth had been conducted through pure deduction—speculating why a stone falls to earth—it was now permissible to roughen one's hands in the mechanics of experiment, measuring precisely how the stone falls.
An Engine of Perpetual Revolution By Alan Hirshfeld 2011
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Some mechanics buy narrow wire brushes to even and roughen the glue surface.
Ask Nick: Tire choice for an epic, re-gluing tubulars, post-crash replacements and more 2011
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Nail primers, which are used to roughen the surface of the fingernail, are among the most dangerous products.
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After firing a pot, they would roughen its surface and apply chaute, a mixture of charcoal, oil of sage seed and a glue-like substance from the camote tuber.
Guachimontones: unearthing a lost world near Teuchitlan, Jalisco 2009
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I push on, and soon the ranchland begins to roughen into badlands.
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They were close, very close, the smooth surface of the water already beginning to swirl and roughen as they approached the sharp, underwater rocks.
A Sorcerous Mist Megan Arkenberg 2010
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They were close, very close, the smooth surface of the water already beginning to swirl and roughen as they approached the sharp, underwater rocks.
Archive 2010-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2010
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Oh, wait, he means that she needs to roughen up her styling.
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Oh, wait, he means that she needs to roughen up her styling.
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