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roughride

roughride verb: to ride out; to weather (a difficult situation).

Verb

roughride (third-person singular simple present roughrides, present participle roughriding, simple past roughrode, past participle roughridden)

  1. (transitive) To ride out; to weather (a difficult situation).
    • Pondering his next move, he decided […] to keep to the masculine and direct, […] to roughride the feminine guile of his opponent, but genially and while seeming to accept as natural and genuine the facet of herself which she was about to present to him.2016, Kate O'Brien, The Last Of Summer

Forms of roughride

third-person singular presentroughrides
present participleroughriding
pastroughrode
past participleroughridden

Questions about roughride

What does roughride mean?
Roughride means to ride out; to weather (a difficult situation).
What part of speech is roughride?
Roughride is a verb.
What is the past tense of roughride?
The past tense of roughride is roughrode.

Words near roughride in the dictionary

  1. roughnesses
  2. roughometer
  3. roughometers
  4. roughout
  5. roughouts
  6. roughride
  7. roughrider
  8. roughriders
  9. roughrides
  10. roughriding
  11. roughs

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