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roughed it

roughed it is the simple past and past participle of rough it.

Meaning of rough it

Verb

rough it (third-person singular simple present roughs it, present participle roughing it, simple past and past participle roughed it)

  1. (colloquial) To endure hard living conditions; to live without ordinary comforts.
    • Out in the backwoods with only a tent and no radio or plumbing, they were really roughing it.

Questions about roughed it

What is roughed it the simple past and past participle of?
Roughed it is the simple past and past participle of rough it.

Words near roughed it in the dictionary

  1. roughdry
  2. roughdrying
  3. Roughead
  4. Rougheads
  5. roughed
  6. roughed it
  7. roughed out
  8. roughed up
  9. roughed up the bullpen
  10. roughen
  11. roughen up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roughed it (page history and authors); rough it (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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