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Definition of roughen:
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I was willing to roughen it in all good- fellowship with these worthy Americans, but I knew that to those who had remarked my careful taste in dress my present appearance would seem almost a little singular.
- "Ruggles of Red Gap", Harry Leon Wilson. -
He had rather efface himself and his own interests for ever than roughen, by one additional pebble, my path to the grave!
- "Doctor Cupid", Rhoda Broughton. -
Household drudgery, woodcutting, milking, and gardening soon roughen the hands and dim the outside polish.
- "My Brilliant Career", Miles Franklin.