roughed

as indraft

Synonyms for roughed

verb formulate

Antonyms for roughed

Word Origin & History

Old English ruh "rough, coarse (of cloth); hairy, shaggy; untrimmed, uncultivated," from West Germanic *rukhwaz "shaggy, hairy, rough" (cf. Middle Dutch ruuch, Dutch ruig, Old High German ruher, German rauh), from Proto-Germanic *rukhaz, from PIE *reue- "to smash, knock down, tear out, dig up" (cf. Sanskrit ruksah "rough;" Latin ruga "wrinkle," ruere "to rush, fall violently, collapse," ruina "a collapse;" Lithuanian raukas "wrinkle," rukti "to shrink").

The original -gh- sound was guttural, as in Scottish loch. Sense of "approximate" is first recorded c.1600. Of places, "riotous, disorderly, characterized by violent action," 1863. Rough draft is from 1690s. Rough-and-ready is from 1810, originally military; rough-and-tumble (1810) is from a style of free-fighting.

Example Sentences for roughed

"Oh, we know that—we have roughed it before," returned Dave.

I am a sailor by profession, and have roughed it before to-day.

Many of those that had roughed through the hard winter were still weak.

If he roughed my suit, so much the better; I intended to rough his.

I roughed it a bit in the colonies at first; but it did me no harm.

If there is such a thing as love, we discover it after we have tossed about and roughed it.

I've roughed it because I had to, and I've gone low enough at times.

The surface should not be roughed up or cut up into "shoulders."

I roughed out one draft and tore it up; then a second, then a third.

He said he had roughed it in the West for a year or two first.