roughened
past simple and past participle ofroughen
roughen
verb[IorT]
uk/ˈrʌf.ən/us/ˈrʌf.ən/to (causesomething to)becomelesssmooth
Making things more or less smooth or straight
- bunch
- bunch(something)up
- coarsen
- coarsening
- creased
- crinkle
- fold
- foldaway
- folding
- furl
- grooming
- interfold
- pucker
- rumple
- sandpaper
- screw
- sleek
- sleek back/down
- stabilizer
- wrinkle
Examplesofroughened
roughened
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The body is compressed dorso-ventrally and the surface isroughenedin character and in places spiniferous.
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I know from personal experience of occasions when the police haveroughenedup innocent people.
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It is gray-brown in color, and minutelyroughenedwith small, lightly interconnected warts.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For a hatchet still in aroughenedstate they gave in return a number of their light bamboo spears.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the last few caudals and the most cranial dorsals, the lateral edge of the prezygapophyseal lamina becomes widened androughened.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The interstices are occupied by one or two spiral threads androughenedby fine radial growth lines.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For the best weld, surfaces should beroughened(or scratched) with fine or coarse sandpaper.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The name translates approximately asroughenedor agitated waves.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The ductus seminalis attaches at the side, from the hind end of the long, broad ductus bursae, whose surface is mostlyroughened.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Alternatively, microderm crystals can be safely replaced by theroughenedsurface of a diamond tip microdermabrasion system.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The plate is often made from filter paper, glass or platinum which may beroughenedto ensure complete wetting.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Its fourth left metatarsal boreroughenedexostoses both in the middle and at the far end.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The five whorls are separated by canaliculate sutures, convex, the embryonic ones smooth, the restroughened.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Characteristically it forms chrysocystidia and rather large, finelyroughened, violaceous basidiospores each with a poorly defined germ pore.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The skin is thick androughenedby well-calcified dermal denticles; each denticle is triangular and pointed.
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