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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb roughen has 1 sense

• roughen(v = verb.contact) Array - make rough or rougher; "roughen the surfaces so they will stick to each other"
is one way to change surface
Antonym: smooth
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

roughen

agitate, beat, beat up, boss, churn, churn up, coarsen, convulse, disarrange, discompose, disquiet, disturb, excite, ferment, flurry, fret, gnarl, grain, granulate, horripilate, knob, paddle, perturb, perturbate, pimple, rile, ripple, roil, rough, rough up, ruffle, rumple, shake, shake up, smooth, stir, stir up, stud, swirl, tooth, trouble, upset, whip, whip up, whisk, work up

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roughen

Roughness

VB be rough, go against the grain, render-rough, roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.

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