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coarsen

/ˈkɔː(ɹ)sən/

coarsen verb: to make (more) coarse.

Verb

coarsen (third-person singular simple present coarsens, present participle coarsening, simple past and past participle coarsened)

  1. (transitive) To make (more) coarse.
    • She appeared to be neither wooden nor stationary, but a singing spirit, young and fresh, passing through the jungle. No violence coarsened her; no power domineered to wither her. She was graciously feminine.1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 6 "D'Sonoqua," http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100131h.html
    • […] as the years went by, democracy and its wide audiences tended to broaden and coarsen humor., R. Z. Sheppard, “She-Wits and Funny Persons”, in Time
  2. (intransitive) To become (more) coarse.
    • He was intolerable now except under the influence of liquor, and as he seemed to decay and coarsen under her eyes, Gloria's soul and body shrank away from him […]1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3)
    • […] though her skin had coarsened in the last ten years, the dark red of her cheeks and lips was as vivid as ever.1925, Ellen Glasgow, chapter 14, in Barren Ground

coarsen meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

coarsen in Malayalam

roughen, toughen, harden
തഴമ്പിക്കുക, പരുപരുത്തതാകുക, പരുക്കനാകുക, കടുക്കുക, കല്ലിക്കുക, മൂരിക്കുക
desensitize, dehumanize, dull
തഴമ്പിപ്പിക്കുക, മനസ്സു മരവിപ്പിക്കുക, മനുഷ്യത്വം ഇല്ലാതാക്കുക, കഠോരഹൃദയനാക്കുക, കഠിനമനസ്കനാക്കുക, മയമില്ലാതാക്കുക

coarsen in Kannada

ಒರಟಾಗು, ಒರಟುಮಾಡು, ಕಾಡಾಗು, ಒರಟಾಗಿರು, ಅಸಭ್ಯವಾಗಿರು, ಕಟುವಾಗಿರು

Forms of coarsen

third-person singular presentcoarsens
present participlecoarsening
past participlecoarsened
pastcoarsened

Origin of coarsen

From coarse + -en.

Words formed from coarsen

Words that rhyme with coarsen

Questions about coarsen

What does coarsen mean?
Coarsen means to make (more) coarse.
What is coarsen in Malayalam?
Coarsen in Malayalam is തഴമ്പിക്കുക, പരുപരുത്തതാകുക, പരുക്കനാകുക. See Coarsen meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is coarsen?
Coarsen is a verb.
How do you pronounce coarsen?
Coarsen is pronounced /ˈkɔː(ɹ)sən/.
What is the past tense of coarsen?
The past tense of coarsen is coarsened.

Words near coarsen in the dictionary

  1. coarse-grainings
  2. coarse-handed
  3. Coarsegold
  4. coarsehanded
  5. coarsely
  6. coarsen
  7. coarsened
  8. coarsener
  9. coarseners
  10. coarseness
  11. coarsenesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coarsen (page history and authors); coarsen (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); coarsen (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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