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roughen
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
CIDE DICTIONARY
roughen, v. t. [From Rough.].
To make rough. [1913 Webster]
roughen, v. i.
To grow or become rough. [1913 Webster]
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 upROGET THESAURUS
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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