roughened

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Auto-tune aside, fans will notice that Thorn's voice has deepened and roughened.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2023

To achieve the shells’ luminous surfaces, Utzon covered them with more than a million handcrafted ceramic tiles, their surfaces roughened by trace amounts of crushed stone, a technique inspired by Japanese pottery.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2021

It was more like a shift in temperature or light, a texture inside of me that roughened.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2021

He sang his conversational lyrics in a voice roughened by a hard-luck life, particularly after throat cancer left him with a disfigured jaw.

From Washington Times • Apr. 7, 2020

Now he stood at the window of the nursery, his armpits still rank with fear, his right cheek roughened by his fall on the ice and his lower lip swollen.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides