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词汇 coarsen
释义 coarsen
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˈkɔː.sən/ us /ˈkɔːr.sən/

coarsenverb[I or T] (ROUGH)


to become rough or cause something to become rough: (使)变粗;使粗糙
In high summer, the salad leaves coarsen and become bitter.
He coarsens the paint by mixing it with marble dust.
The tone of his voice has coarsened and his singing lacks the elegant finesse he once possessed.
The voice tends to coarsen when under pressure in higher registers.
The facade of the house has lost its render, exposing stones coarsened by age.
Sun and time coarsen the skin.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making things more or less smooth or straight
bunch
bunch (something) up
coarsening
collapse
creased
crinkle
crinkled
fold
furl
grooming
interfold
isolator
pucker
pumice stone
sand
sandpaper
screw
sleek
sleek back/down
smoothen

coarsenverb[I or T] (NOT POLITE)


to become simpler and less polite or more offensive, or to make something do this:
Readers' tastes have coarsened, he claims.
They feel that the entertainment industry has coarsened our culture.
Often, in the pursuit of the largest audience, television "dumbs down" and coarsens.
This presentation of extreme violence as entertainment, he says, coarsens our society.
He and his allies are seen as having coarsened the political debate.
He has been coarsened and corrupted by the world of business.
We are all being coarsened by this continual diet of exploitative TV.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Becoming too excited and easily upset
ado
ant
antsy
at the end of your tetheridiom
be in a whirlidiom
demented
febrile
have ants in your pantsidiom
have thin/thick skinidiom
high-strung
highly strung
hot under the collaridiom
hysterics
lather
overeager
overeagerness
oversensitive
overwrought
shockable
worked up
Examples from literature

At any rate his agreeable voice had not coarsened. 
But labor has done nothing to coarsen the innate refinement of the soul which looks out of the fine old face. 
Heating steel at even moderate temperature is liable to coarsen the grain which can only be restored by forging or by heat treating. 
She grew stout, too, and unwieldy, and her skin coarsened from lack of care and overeating. 

Examples of coarsen


coarsen
The 1881 presidential campaign coarsened : journalists, unfettered by libel laws, caricatured, mocked, and even insulted the once revered general.
In fact, this phenomenon should rather be interpreted as 'mesh coarsening' away from the point of evaluation.
Numerical results are presented to confirm part of the analysis and to explore the difference between the two models on coarsening dynamics.
Note that for post-processing, the mesh has been coarsened by a factor of 2 in each direction.
By coarsening we mean in particular the decrease of the number of droplets in time.
Our numerical results clearly distinguish different stages of coarsening such as the initial preparation and the alternating rapid structural transition and slow motion.
Plane-laminated and cross-stratified sandstone facies constitute an interbedded succession and often coarsen upward.
As the interface region moves the mesh is refined and coarsened appropriately.
Those, in turn, can be controlled by locally refining or coarsening the computational mesh.
Sandstone beds in this type of cycle thicken and coarsen upward, with grain size ranging from fine to coarse.
This ' coarsening ' of the domain structure is driven by free energy minimisation.
With probability one, solutions coarsen to one of the two stable constant solutions, u +1.
The coarsening process can be mediated by two mechanisms: collapse and collision of droplets.
Exsolution and coarsening mechanisms and kinetics in an ordered cryptoperthite series.
My senses are finer edged than they were, instead of being dulled and coarsened.
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