All coarsen synonyms

verb coarsen

• accustom — If you accustom yourself or another person to something, you make yourself or them become used to it.
• swell — to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
• broaden — When something broadens, it becomes wider.
• augment — To augment something means to make it larger, stronger, or more effective by adding something to it.
• build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
• dehumanize — If you say that something dehumanizes people, you mean it takes away from them good human qualities such as kindness, generosity, and independence.
• demoralize — If something demoralizes someone, it makes them lose so much confidence in what they are doing that they want to give up.
• feed — to give a fee to.
• thicken — make thicker
• bloat — to swell or cause to swell, as with a liquid, air, or wind
• distend — Swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside.
• wax — a fit of anger; rage.
• increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
• spread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
• stuff — the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
• thrive — to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
• cram — If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them.
• plump — direct; downright; blunt.
• fill — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
• overfeed — give too much food to
• conform — If something conforms to something such as a law or someone's wishes, it is of the required type or quality.
• strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
• stupefy — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
• discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
• inure — to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
• develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
• callous — A callous person or action is very cruel and shows no concern for other people or their feelings.
• acclimatize — When you acclimatize or are acclimatized to a new situation, place, or climate, you become used to it.
• adapt — If you adapt to a new situation or adapt yourself to it, you change your ideas or behaviour in order to deal with it successfully.
• habituate — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
• stun — to deprive of consciousness or strength by or as if by a blow, fall, etc.: The blow to his jaw stunned him for a moment.
• steel — any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
• season — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
• train — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
• numb — deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move: fingers numb with cold.
• deaden — If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
• teach — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
• dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• stiffen — to make stiff.
• indurate — to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
• blunt — If you are blunt, you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.
• acclimate — When you acclimate or are acclimated to a new situation, place, or climate, you become used to it.
• paralyze — to affect with paralysis.
• adjust — When you adjust to a new situation, you get used to it by changing your behaviour or your ideas.
• brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
• roughen — make rough
• 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.
• pervert — to affect with perversion.
• debase — To debase something means to reduce its value or quality.
• debauch — to lead into a life of depraved self-indulgence