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Definition of Roughens
1. roughen [v] - See also: roughen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roughens
Literary usage of Roughens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"Here is also his Apollo overtaking Daphne, whose feet take root, whose finger-tips
sprout into twigs, and whose tender body roughens round about with bark, ..."
2. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1899)
"Here is also his Apollo overtaking Daphne, whose feet take root, whose finger-tips
sprout into twigs, and whose tender body roughens round about with bark, ..."
3. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1888)
"Here is also his Apollo overtaking Daphne, whose feet take root, whose finger-tips
sprout into twigs, and whose tender body roughens round about with bark, ..."
4. The Psalmodist: A Choice Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Chiefly New by William B Bradbury (1844)
"The surface roughens, the ocean shakes, waives; a- waxes, gale, the troubled wave
a-wakes, The sur - face roughens, The surface roughens, the ocean sha ..."
5. The Red Cross Magazine by American national Red cross (1917)
"The wrong kind of soap roughens the skin, removes its natural oiliness and favors
... It smoothes instead of roughens and soothes instead of irritates. ..."
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