ROUGHENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roughened mean? 

• ROUGHENED (adjective)
  The adjective ROUGHENED has 1 sense:

1. used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure

  Familiarity information: ROUGHENED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUGHENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure

Synonyms:

chapped; cracked; roughened

Context example:

chapped lips

Similar:

rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)

 Context examples 

He was a tall man, over six feet high, and broad in proportion, and he had a bluff, rough-and-ready face, all roughened and reddened and lined in his long travels.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"Here is one." And taking up the hand which lay on the arm of his chair, he pointed to the roughened forefinger, a burn on the back, and two or three little hard spots on the palm.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I have an impression on my mind which I cannot distinguish from actual remembrance, of the touch of Peggotty's forefinger as she used to hold it out to me, and of its being roughened by needlework, like a pocket nutmeg-grater.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)