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Meanings of roughened in English

Used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure.

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Usage of roughened in English
1
Her voice was still clipped, not yet roughened by desire or tears.
Poison or Protect
2
It was gorgeous, far too beautiful to put on her work-roughened hands.
Daniel's desire
3
Innumerable epiphytes covered the limbs, and even grew on the roughened trunks.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
4
Herd was standing there in the bright moonlight, bareheaded, with roughened hair.
Studies and Essays: Quality, and Others
5
The harrow of pain and passion had roughened his face with wrinkles.
Vergilius: A Tale of the Coming of Christ
6
Mared's chin jerked down and the notes of her healing song roughened.
The grail king
7
Claire walked to it and ran her fingers down the roughened side.
Witch heart
8
Each piece was a chalky white, the surfaces pitted, in places roughened.
Bone fire
9
Bones also roughened with age, became more porous, and lost mass.
Assail
10
Wield a weapon often enough and it left its mark with roughened flesh.
Eve of darkness
11
The woman took off the handkerchief and roughened the hair with careful hand.
Mr. Achilles
12
Her roughened hands clasped and unclasped themselves in the folds of her skirt.
In a German Pension
13
The skin might have been roughened; but no blood was drawn.
Nocturne
14
The hearth brush fell from the work-roughened hand, and Lavinia Herbert looked round.
A Little Princess / Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told...
15
He took her plump, work-roughened hand in his bigger and equally rough one.
Dorian
16
I see our past, Your palm roughened by heat, by frost.
The Irish Times
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
Common