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Definition of Coarsened
1. Adjective. Made coarse or crude by lack of skill.
Definition of Coarsened
1. Verb. (past of coarsen) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coarsened
1. coarsen [v] - See also: coarsen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coarsened
Literary usage of Coarsened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"thick, some of them in their initial moderately fine-grained state and some of
them coarsened by heating, and kindly given by Mr. WE Ruder, were cut into ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1914)
"Though the rolled bar when re-coarsened (B, Rows 16 and 17) looks at first ...
Evidence that the network in this coarsened piece is really unusually smooth ..."
3. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams (1905)
"... have not only enlarged their scale and coarsened their design, but have
coarsened their colour-scheme also, discarding blue in order to crush us under ..."
4. Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates by Helen Thomas Follett, Wilson Follett (1918)
"Every careful reader of Gissing will remember a great number of passages where
unimaginative contempt of women is the mark of men coarsened by a low ..."
5. Fission Gas Behaviour in Water Reactor Fuels: Seminar Proceedings, Cadarache by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2002)
"In this way, the position of the interface at Ri between original and coarsened
bubbles was always known and the arrival rate of gas layers at the grain ..."
6. The Red Cross Magazine by American national Red cross (1917)
"She felt it was all bad for Eddie; it coarsened him. She did not want him
coarsened ; he was by nature such a dear boy. In the hayloft the ten boys had ..."