roughened

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adj toughened

adjective. ridged, grooved

adjective. toughened

1580s, from rough (adj.) + -en (1). Related: Roughened; roughening.

She had taken off her hat; the wind and the bushes had roughened her hair.

He nodded, as he endeavored to smooth the roughened silk of his hat.

Granulose: roughened with granules or made up of distinct grains.

Lying in the composition was the roughened end of a wire "slider."

A match was withdrawn, and he struck it against a roughened side of the safe.

"It's not an accusation," he said in his roughened, grating voice.

We use the glass rods to prevent the thread from being caught or roughened.

His face was tanned and roughened by cold and stinging brine.

The weathering of ages has roughened their sides and dulled their polish.

His linen was limp and roughened, too—all things to his disadvantage.