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roughen
verb as in harden
verb as in rough up
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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.
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Take a piece of sand-paper and roughen the edges of the break as far around as the size of the patch.
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The path, to be sure, does not roughen until one has gone along it for twenty-eight hundred miles.
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Heading weatherward, he gave more heed to the wheel, for there were signs that the water was going to roughen somewhat.
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No amount of the hardest known abrasive will even roughen its surface.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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