Definition for Roughen:

• To become rough.

Synonyms for Roughen:

• n.

  •
  • bake,
  • clear,
  • break down,
  • boil over,
  • cloud,
  • atomize,
  • bubble,
  • boil up,
  • boil away,
  • boil.

• v.

  •chafe (verb)
  • chap.
  •contact (verb)
  • roughen.
  •derange (verb)
  • hash,
  • jumble,
  • tamper,
  • toss,
  • muddle,
  • dishevel,
  • misplace,
  • mess,
  • dislocate,
  • rummage,
  • confuse,
  • blur,
  • mix up,
  • capsize,
  • clutter,
  • disorganize,
  • confound,
  • muss,
  • tumble,
  • meddle,
  • scramble,
  • disorder,
  • displace,
  • tousle,
  • scatter,
  • derange,
  • mislay,
  • botch.
  •harden (verb)
  • adjust,
  • make callous,
  • teach,
  • train,
  • indurate,
  • acclimate,
  • habituate,
  • strengthen,
  • Climatize,
  • blunt,
  • callus,
  • stiffen,
  • stun,
  • steel,
  • case-harden,
  • inure,
  • discipline,
  • callous,
  • adapt,
  • develop,
  • stupefy,
  • dull,
  • embitter,
  • acclimatize,
  • numb,
  • deaden,
  • brutalize,
  • render insensitive,
  • season,
  • conform,
  • paralyze.
  •roughen (verb)
  • scuff,
  • scratch.
  •rough up (verb)
  • bash,
  • maltreat,
  • mistreat,
  • HIT,
  • batter,
  • thrash,
  • manhandle,
  • abuse,
  • roughhouse.

• Other synonyms:

  •harden
  • coarsened,
  • Casehardened,
  • roughens,
  • Caseharden,
  • calloused,
  • Climatized,
  • case-hardened,
  • coarsens,
  • disciplined,
  • Roughening,
  • calluses,
  • callused,
  • harden,
  • coarsening,
  • callusing,
  • Dulling,
  • Casehardening,
  • callousing,
  • dulls,
  • case-hardening,
  • Disciplining,
  • roughened,
  • callouses.

Antonyms for Roughen:

• v.

  • contact
    smooth.
  • harden
    indulge, be intolerant, spoil.
  • rough up
    aid, protect, help.

• v. t.

  • Other antonyms:
    smoothen.

Roughen Sentence Examples:

• So the brothers went to the glass hill, and all the princes and knights began to ride again, and this time they had taken care to roughen the shoes of their horses; but that did not help them: they rode and they slipped as they had done the day before, and not one of them could get even so far as a yard up the hill.

• The truth is, Sir, the lean sandy soil and the droughts and the long winters and the east - winds and the cold storms, and all sorts of unknown local influences that we can't make out quite so plainly as these, have a tendency to roughen the human organization and make it coarse, something as it is with the tree I mentioned.

Homophones for Roughen:

• raisin, reexamine, reawaken, russian, reckon, ruskin, raceme, re-examine, ricin, Riesman, reagin, regain, regime, requiem, reagan, risen, Rosh Hashana, rescission, raw sienna, reign, Reggane, reason, rough in, rejoin, resume, racoon, racism, reassign, rajanya, rich man, roughhewn, rake in, recession, resin, ryukyuan, Rosh Hashona, raccoon, rhizome, racon, rousseauan, regimen, rose gum, rose wine, rossini, rosin, resign, re-assume, Rosh Hashanah, recission, regina, region, resiny, racine, Rosh Hashonah, Rosa Canina, rogaine.

Hyponym for Roughen:

• v.

  • contact
    change surface.