Transcription
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- [ruhf-uh n]
- /ˈrʌf ən/
- /ˈrʌf.ən/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [ruhf-uh n]
- /ˈrʌf ən/
Definitions of roughen word
- transitive verb roughen make rough 1
- verb roughen If something has been roughened, its surface has become less smooth. 0
- verb roughen to make or become rough 0
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Origin of roughen
First appearance:
before 1580 One of the 35% oldest English words
First recorded in 1580-90; rough + -en1
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Parts of speech for Roughen
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
roughen popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 85% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.
Synonyms for roughen
verb roughen
- calloused — A foot or hand that is calloused is covered in calluses.
- callouses — made hard; hardened.
- callus — A callus is an unwanted area of thick skin, usually on the palms of your hands or the soles of your feet, which has been caused by something rubbing against it.
- callused — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calluses — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
Antonyms for roughen
verb roughen
- cladding — Cladding is a covering of tiles, wooden boards, or other material that is fixed to the outside of a building to protect it against bad weather or to make it look more attractive.
- co-ordinate — If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- commeasure — to coincide with in degree, extent, quality, etc
- communize — to make (property) public; nationalize
- democratize — If a country or a system is democratized, it is made democratic.
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