roughen
Example Sentences
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Milioti roughens Hazel's edges all the while, but in the eight-episode season's back half she reasserts who she was before Byron captured her.
From Salon
“Doesn’t the scramble for milk constitute a sufficient incentive to transcend formalities and roughen out the edges in order to form a government?”
From Reuters
To have it reflect our current situation, we need to roughen it up.
From Salon
A battered sign for Tops Snuff is the subject of three silk-screens, their printing roughened with sand and coffee grounds.
From Washington Post
Like many of his contemporaries, Mr. Caballero prefers a shorter soak, just long enough to infiltrate the seafood and slightly roughen its slippery texture.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
