Meaning

2 senses

  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.

    aufrauen, anrauen, rau machen

    make rough or rougher

  2. (intransitive)To become rough.

    rau werden

Examples

1 sentences

  1. His keen face was bronzed by the sun and roughened by the wind.

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Translations

2 languages
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By meaning 2
to make rough:
to become rough:

Origin

From rough + -en.

From rough + -en.

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Forms

roughens, roughening, roughened, roughened
Base formroughen · to roughen
3rd person singularroughens
Present participleroughening
Past simpleroughened
Past participleroughened

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyroughen
he, she, itroughens

Past simpleLesson

all personsroughened

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave roughened
he, she, ithas roughened

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill roughen

Antonyms

1 antonyms
smooth

Word family

5 related words
Derivedmicroroughenednonroughenedroughenerroughen upunroughened

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
roughB1roughlyA2roughshodroulette
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