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roughened

adjective as in corrugated

adjective as in weather-beaten

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Mark was the timid new kid then, which Darren, roughened up from life with an abusive father, exploited in their game of chicken.

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

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“It wasn’t looked at being this roughened type of scenario. It was an offering with very strong comforts of home while you still were able to enjoy the outdoors with your family.”

They share a life spent mostly outside, conflicted relationships with their addictions, personalities roughened by the realities of survival and an ability to build and foster community on the streets.

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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