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roughen

/ˈɹʌfən/

roughen verb: to make rough.

Verb

roughen (third-person singular simple present roughens, present participle roughening, simple past and past participle roughened)

  1. (transitive) To make rough.
    • The wind began to roughen the surface of the sea.
    • They roughened the edges of the stone to give it a rustic look.
  2. (intransitive) To become rough.

roughen meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

roughen in Bengali

অমসৃণ করা, অমসৃণ হওয়া

roughen in Malayalam

രൂക്ഷമാക്കുക, മാർദ്ദവമില്ലാതാവുക, പരുക്കനാക്കുക

Examples of roughen in a sentence

  • But at Mangnai the road roughened to a stone trail, where trucks, even my bus, gave up.
  • Household drudgery, wood-cutting, milking, and gardening soon roughen the hands and dim the outside polish.
  • The road curved as it roughened, with some dirtfalls cascading onto the road in some places from rain and wind.

All 13 example sentences with roughen

Forms of roughen

third-person singular presentroughens
present participleroughening
past participleroughened
pastroughened

Origin of roughen

From rough + -en.

Words formed from roughen

Words that rhyme with roughen

Questions about roughen

What does roughen mean?
Roughen means to make rough.
What is roughen in Bengali?
Roughen in Bengali is অমসৃণ করা, অমসৃণ হওয়া. See Roughen meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is roughen?
Roughen is a verb.
How do you pronounce roughen?
Roughen is pronounced /ˈɹʌfən/.
What is the past tense of roughen?
The past tense of roughen is roughened.

Words near roughen in the dictionary

  1. roughed
  2. roughed it
  3. roughed out
  4. roughed up
  5. roughed up the bullpen
  6. roughen
  7. roughen up
  8. roughened
  9. roughened up
  10. roughener
  11. rougheners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roughen (page history and authors); roughen (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); roughen (Malayalam 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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