verb
definition
To make rough.
definition
To become rough.
Examples of roughened in a Sentence
The outer surface of these sheets is slightly roughened by contact with the iron mould.
Some clear glass is treated using techniques such as sand blasting or acid etching to create a slighted roughened surface that makes the glass semi-opaque.
His jaw was roughened from a five o'clock shadow.
The perfect bow of her mouth appeared red, roughened and plump from kisses.
She pressed the front of her body against the building, dug her fingertips into indents in the stone, and slid her foot along the roughened ledge to the right, stepping slowly and forcing her head up.
He gripped her neck in one large, roughened hand, tilting her head.
He cupped one cheek with his roughened hand and rubbed away a tear with his thumb.
He touched her cheek with a roughened palm.
She shivered at the sensation of his roughened jaw against her cheek and the heat of his bare chest.
His jaw was roughened, his red eyes glowing.
Males may be distinguished from females by the skull, in which the outer surface of the cheek-bones is roughened in the former and smooth in the latter sex.
Prior has introduced an ingenious method of making small oblong and square sheets of coloured glass, which are thick in the centre and taper towards the edges, and which have one surface slightly roughened and one brilliantly polished.
The roughened inner surface and the adhering particles of sand may also be accounted for.
These papillae give the surface a roughened aspect; the use of their secretion is unknown.
John Canton (1718-1772) made the important contribution to knowledge that electricity of either sign could be produced on nearly any body by friction with appropriate substances, and that a rod of glass roughened on one half was excited negatively in the rough part and positively in the smooth part by friction with the same rubber.
Hair having a property of mutual cohesion or " felting," which depends upon a roughened scaly surface and a tendency to curl, as in domestic sheep, is called " wool."
The surfaces of the cylinders are roughened with a sand blast to increase the areas and make the deposited metals adhere more firmly.
Any replacement tire will be chafed even more rapidly by the roughened rim edge.
The roughened aspiration tip can be used for reliable selective polishing of the posterior capsule.
Paint which is sound should be roughened slightly to give the tile something to grip.