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roughens

  • present tense form
    of roughen (3rd person singular).
    roughen
    verb (used with or without object)
    to make or become rough or rougher.

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Wells has a deep, oaky baritone that roughens to a grumble in its lower register.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019

"Yes, I am a rough brute," he repeated bitterly; "but, darling, you don't know how it roughens one, bossing the men!"

From Tiny Luttrell by Ernest William Hornung

He undulates the surface, he raises it in hills, scoops it into vallies, and roughens it with rocks.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Sir John Barrow

The excitable peevishness which kindles at trifles, that roughens the daily experience of a million families, that scatters its little stings at the table and by the hearth-stone, what does this but unmixed harm?

From Friends and Neighbors by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Such difference there is in tongues that the same figure which roughens one, gives majesty to another; and that was it which Virgil studied in his verses.

From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden