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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



... to roughen under the stiff breeze. The fog was split asunder, the pieces were torn to fragments and shreds, and then everything was swept away, leaving the surface of the lake a silver mirror, and the mountains high and green on either shore. Far behind them hovered the Indian ...
— The Lords of the Wild - A Story of the Old New York Border • Joseph A. Altsheler



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



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