1 to become or make sth become thicker and/or rougher:
[V] Her hair gradually coarsened as she grew older. * [VN] His features had been coarsened by the weather.
2 to become or make sb become less polite and often offensive in the way they behave:
[VN] The six long years in prison had coarsened him. [also V]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for coarsen is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is coarsen a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, coarsen is tagged as verb.
Does coarsen appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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