The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roughening
Roughen \Rough"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roughened; p. pr. & vb. n. Roughening.] [From Rough.] To make rough.
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roughening
vb. (present participle of roughen English)
Usage examples of "roughening".
They wracked the man's body, roughening his skin, contorting his muscles.
The result of such labors was a slight roughening of the tree’s surface and a more considerable roughening of the skin inside my arms.
He could still feel the shock at his father’s words, the roughening of his skin and the shrinking of his testicles.
It gave him an anxious feeling, a roughening of the skin at the back of his neck, an almost prescient sense that he might revisit those events, and this time make them work out to his advantage.