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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of roughen.

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  • adjective used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure

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Examples

  • His hair was very fair, his face naturally sanguine, his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razor blades and the cold of the winter that had just ended.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

  • Â After it dried, I sanded it lightly, which brought out the texture and roughened the surface to make adhesion better.

    Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Strive Book 2009

  • "Just waiting," answered Jake's dad, his voice slipping into the gruff tone it could take on when they travelled into rural Alaska, when he moved closer into the country that had roughened and raised him.

    The Place He Had to Go Cortney McLellan 2011

  • Yet for all Mann's show of creative muscle, Luck remains very much a David Milch show, from the grubby poetry of the dialogue "You don't know how your daddy died, what they did to him," Nolte mutters wistfully to his horse early on to the roughened beauty of the setting.

    After John From Cincinatti, David Milch spies a change in his Luck 2012

  • "Just waiting," answered Jake's dad, his voice slipping into the gruff tone it could take on when they travelled into rural Alaska, when he moved closer into the country that had roughened and raised him.

    The Place He Had to Go Cortney McLellan 2011

  • Â After it dried, I sanded it lightly, which brought out the texture and roughened the surface to make adhesion better.

    Kater’s Art » 2009 » May 2009

  • The flute accentuates the bubbles coming off the bottom because of a “poil mousse,” or a roughened “scratch point,” said Maxmilian Riedel, also on hand for the event.

    Charles Heidsieck wants to burst your bubble – decanting Champagne | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • The microphone crackled and roughened the sound, but the liquid of her voice came through.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • The flute accentuates the bubbles coming off the bottom because of a “poil mousse,” or a roughened “scratch point,” said Maxmilian Riedel, also on hand for the event.

    2009 October | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • The microphone crackled and roughened the sound, but the liquid of her voice came through.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

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