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roughen

/ruhf-uhn/US // ˈrʌf ən //UK // (ˈrʌfən) //

粗暴对待,粗暴,粗暴地对待,粗暴的

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : to make or become rough or rougher.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inharden
Forms: roughened

Examples

  • The rubber used should not be of a harsh grade, since that will roughen the face of the paper and probably cause the ink to run.

  • Take a piece of sand-paper and roughen the edges of the break as far around as the size of the patch.

  • The path, to be sure, does not roughen until one has gone along it for twenty-eight hundred miles.

  • Heading weatherward, he gave more heed to the wheel, for there were signs that the water was going to roughen somewhat.

  • No amount of the hardest known abrasive will even roughen its surface.