roughen
/ˈrʌf(ə)n
/verb
Make or become rough: [with object]: the wind was roughening the surface of the river [no object]: his voice roughened...
- The coarser the powder, the more the grains roughen up the surface for more of a textured finish.
- Virginia's voice had roughened to an angry growl.
- Etching the parts roughens the surface for better mechanical adhesion of the EN to the magnesium.
Rhymes
- polling station
- sterling
- sterling area
- Sterling Heights
- sterling silver
- Sterlitamak
- stern
- sternal
- sternal rib
- Sternberg–Reed
- sterndrive
- sterned
- Sterne, Laurence
- Stern Gang
- Stern, Isaac
- sternite
- sternly
- sternmost
- sternness
- Sterno
- sternocleidomastoid
- sternocleidomastoid muscle
- sternomastoid
- sternpost
- sternsheets