Roughen
['rʌf(ə)n] or ['rʌfn]
Definition
(verb.) make rough or rougher; 'roughen the surfaces so they will stick to each other'.
Checker: Nona--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make rough.
(v. i.) To grow or become rough.
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Examples
- This process is repeated several times, the object of it being not so much to give relief to the lines, as to roughen the surface of the stone, and thus facilitate its absorption of water. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The aborigines knew how to sharpen bones of the animals they killed to scrape, clean, soften or roughen their skins. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Next apply rubber cement to the roughened surface, and at the same time cement a piece of rubber cloth or cloth well coated with the cement. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- As dark night drew on, the sea roughened: larger waves swayed strong against the vessel's side. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She put her hand, which was a comfortable hand though roughened by work, upon my hands, one after another, and gently took them out of my hair. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- What has roughened your temper? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- His very hair seemed to sparkle as he roughened it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- These, in conjunction with one hand in his pocket and his roughened hat hind side before, were evidently the conditions under which he reflected. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Why, he slowly replied, roughening his head more and more, he is all sentiment, and--and susceptibility, and--and sensibility, and--and imagination. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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