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English
Etymology
From coarse + -en.
Pronunciation
Verb
coarsen (third-person singular simple present coarsens, present participle coarsening, simple past and past participle coarsened)
- (transitive) To make (more) coarse.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 6 "D'Sonoqua,"
- She appeared to be neither wooden nor stationary, but a singing spirit, young and fresh, passing through the jungle. No violence coarsened her; no power domineered to wither her. She was graciously feminine.
1978 March, R. Z. Sheppard, “She-Wits and Funny Persons”, in Time:[…] as the years went by, democracy and its wide audiences tended to broaden and coarsen humor.
Because the wool is of poor quality, it will coarsen the fabric.
- (intransitive) To become (more) coarse.
1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3):He was intolerable now except under the influence of liquor, and as he seemed to decay and coarsen under her eyes, Gloria's soul and body shrank away from him […]
1925, Ellen Glasgow, chapter 14, in Barren Ground:[…] though her skin had coarsened in the last ten years, the dark red of her cheeks and lips was as vivid as ever.
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- seacorn, canoers, sea corn, Creason, corneas, Sarceno, sorance, Croesan, carnose, narcose, Carones, earcons, Coreans