Roughen

After firing a pot, they would roughen its surface and apply chaute, a mixture of charcoal, oil of sage seed and a glue-like substance from the camote tuber. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nail primers, which are used to roughen the surface of the fingernail, are among the most dangerous products. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some mechanics buy narrow wire brushes to even and roughen the glue surface. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Where previously the pursuit of truth had been conducted through pure deduction—speculating why a stone falls to earth—it was now permissible to roughen one's hands in the mechanics of experiment, measuring precisely how the stone falls. ❋ By Alan Hirshfeld (2011)

I push on, and soon the ranchland begins to roughen into badlands. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They were close, very close, the smooth surface of the water already beginning to swirl and roughen as they approached the sharp, underwater rocks. ❋ Megan Arkenberg (2010)

Then, moving down, he began to roughen the tight skin on the backs of his hands. ❋ David Russo (2010)

Oh, wait, he means that she needs to roughen up her styling. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The last word — Latin for roughen or agitate — is a reference to the clouds' undulating surface. ❋ The Year In Pictures (2009)

What I need to do according to this theory is to roughen up my style. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2009)

Frost flowers roughen the surface and dramatically alter its electromagnetic signal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Stewart's characters in this mold which is to say, when he's not working with Hitchcock or Mann, two directors who tended to roughen up the actor's edges are charming and kind of naïve, genuine nice guys who have a real down-home appeal even in their darkest moments. ❋ Ed Howard (2008)

The air has a mouldering smell, and an earthy taste; any stray outer sounds that straggle in with some lost sunbeam, are muffled and heavy; and the worm, the maggot, and the rot have changed the surface of the wood beneath the touch, as time will seam and roughen a smooth hand. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The sea is permitted to invite with smooth and tranquil surface today, tomorrow to roughen with wave and storm. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You: Aye we gonna smoke? Friend: Nah we got [bad time] we gotta go now You: Damn i already [lighted] it, Damn just do [a puffin] roughen. ❋ Tall Black Guy (2021)