Word family noun rough the rough roughage roughness adjective rough verb rough roughen adverb rough roughly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishroughenrough‧en /ˈrʌfən/ verb [intransitive, transitive] ROUGH/NOT SMOOTHto become rough, or to make something rough hands roughened by work→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
roughen• Her hands had been roughened by years of labouring.• Sand the surface to roughen it before repainting.• the roughened old stump of a tree 