coarsen
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Is coarsen a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make (more) coarse.Examples: "1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 6 "D'Sonoqua," http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100131h.html 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."; "[…] 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."transitive
2. (intransitive) To become (more) coarse.Examples: "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 […]"; "[…] though her skin had coarsened in the last ten years, the dark red of her cheeks and lips was as vivid as ever."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary