Usually means: Making a surface more textured.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word roughening:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. roughening: Merriam-Webster
  2. roughening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. roughening: Vocabulary.com
  4. roughening: Wordnik
  5. roughening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. roughening: Wiktionary
  7. Roughening, roughening: Dictionary.com
  8. roughening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Roughening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Roughening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. roughening: FreeDictionary.org
  12. roughening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See roughen as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (roughen)

verb:  (transitive) To make rough.
verb:  (intransitive) To become rough.
▸ Also see roughen


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