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词汇 coarsened
释义 coarsened
past simple and past participle ofcoarsen
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
coarsen
coarsening
creased
crinkle
fold
folding
furl
grooming
interfold
isolator
pucker
rumple
sand
sandpaper
screw
sleek
sleek back/down
wrinkle

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
hysterical
lather
overeagerness
oversensitive
overwrought
shockable
slay
whirl

Examples of coarsened


coarsened

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The 1881 presidential campaign coarsened : journalists, unfettered by libel laws, caricatured, mocked, and even insulted the once revered general.
Note that for post-processing, the mesh has been coarsened by a factor of 2 in each direction.
As the interface region moves the mesh is refined and coarsened appropriately.
My senses are finer edged than they were, instead of being dulled and coarsened.
Manual labourers coarsened themselves as they worked.
On the other hand the longa on 'victor' at the end of the same staff looks like an original virga which the reviser has coarsened and enlarged.
The danger is that our political debate and system is coarsened.
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Are all our hearts hardened and coarsened by events?
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But let not your ideal of well-being on that account be lowered or coarsened.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Symptoms include mildly coarsened facial features, deafness, ichthyosis and an enlarged liver and spleen (hepatosplenomegaly).
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By type 4, the matrix has thoroughly recrystallized and coarsened in grain size.
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At other times his face was coarsened by days of drunken debauchery.
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On some of the new routes coarsened rather than flat fares were to be introduced.
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James's voice deepened and coarsened, moving her musical style in her later years into the genres of soul and jazz.
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