Roughing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ROUGHING in dictionary:

VERB:
• work or shape (something) in a rough, preliminary fashion
• produce a preliminary and unfinished version of something
• make uneven
• live in discomfort with only basic necessities
NOUN:
• the act of making rough
• a disreputable and violent person
• (on a golf course) longer grass around the fairway and the green
• a preliminary sketch
• an uncut precious stone
• (in ice hockey) excessive use of force
ADVERB:
• in a manner that lacks gentleness; harshly or violently
ADJECTIVE:
• having an uneven or irregular surface; not smooth or level
• denoting the face of a tennis or squash racket on which the loops formed from the stringing process project (used as a call when the racket is spun to decide the right to serve first or to choose ends).
• (of a person or their behaviour) not gentle; violent or boisterous
• (of an area or occasion) characterized by violent behaviour
• (of weather or the sea) wild and stormy
• not finished tidily or decoratively; plain and basic
• put together as a temporary measure; makeshift
• lacking sophistication or refinement
• not fully worked out or including every detail
• (of stationery) used for making preliminary notes
• (of a voice) harsh and rasping
• (of wine or another alcoholic drink) sharp or harsh in taste
• not exact or precise; approximate
• difficult and unpleasant or unfair
• unwell
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make rough
• an excessive use of force in hockey

Words related to ROUGHING

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Words that contain ROUGHING

roughings14 troughing14 enroughing15 troughings15

How to use ROUGHING in a sentence

• The thought of the inviting look of the white-covered bed upstairs lay like a balm on the spirits of men not born to roughing it.
• We shall have to choose as lonely a place as possible, and it will probably involve your feeding chiefly on tinned food, and roughing it a bit generally.
• Endymion, however, had seen to the roughing of the horses.
• He was the second of the three Wilder brothers, who had been among the early gold-seekers, and tried roughing it in the mines.
• Even Bob, who was not used to roughing it as were the sailors, stood it bravely, though the hot sun made his head ache.
• I am sure she would look hideous roughing it without her maid.
• It sounds too exciting, and the Senator says there they can show us the real thing and we are not to mind roughing it.
• Nearly all the rest are out of place on a roughing expedition.
• For four months or more some three regiments had been camping, scouting, roughing it thereabouts, with not a cent of pay.
• Again a group of cowboys arrived, jesting and roughing their mounts.
• As before, I stopped for months with a tribe, discharging all alien attendants, and roughing it with the Indians.
• Frank had had considerable experience in roughing it, while his comrade was, in a measure, new to such a life.
• We never heard of anybody being the worse of this adventure, although it is a kind of roughing we would not positively recommend to Miss Laura Matilda, or any of her fair sisters.
• You find in roughing it that a coating of dirt seems to keep out chill.
• But the bulk of my compatriots thought they were roughing it.
• According to her standards, that was roughing it with a vengeance.
• He did not like roughing it, and he did not think it the least likely that his presence in the house would interfere with her work.
• I never came across such a place in my life, though I have knocked about a good deal and am pretty well accustomed to roughing it.
• The Major said that after four years of roughing it, he now meant to take his comfort wherever he could find it, even though it was only on a raft.
• Thompson is a progressive man, who appreciates the many improvements achieved and contemplated, but still loves to tell of the good old times when he was roughing it as a pioneer.
• We had departed from the old trail that Mark Twain crawled over in a stage-coach and afterward wrote about in his immortal Roughing It.
• They rather enjoyed roughing it, and took delight in privation.
• Joe was not used to luxury but to sleep here would be roughing it even for him.
• Three weeks roughing it in the wilderness had not, I fancy, improved my personal appearance, and my costume would have excited a sensation anywhere except in Siberia.
• You thought you were roughing it a good deal, but look at the state these men are in.
• For two long hours he stood to his work with such manly energy that he finished right off a superb roughing out of the whole figure.
• This time Claude proceeded leisurely, and before roughing in the large figure he tired Christine for months by making her pose in twenty different ways.
• But amid all this roughing it in the bush, I find a field of work where kindness and hospitality have thrown their sunshine around my way.
• I used to have some experience in such matters when I was roughing it in Australia.
• It is worth roughing it to experience the keen delight at returning to comforts which are never appreciated at their full worth when enjoyed every day.
• He had gone through a short period of roughing it in his youth, and he had made one or two mistakes as he settled down.
• I suppose that Wagner was too sea-sick to observe what happened during his weeks of roughing it in the North Sea.

Similar words containing ROUGH without suffix ing

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