roughed
SayRUFTUS · UK/ɹʌft/AUS/ɹɐft/
- 1Simple past and past participle of rough.
The bodyguards roughed up the heckler before security stepped in.
He had roughed out the whole proposal before the meeting started.
Note
A regular -ed form, so one spelling does double duty: the finite past (he roughed an opponent) and the participle after have or be. Transitive uses go passive easily: a surface was roughed, a horse was roughed for service, a draft was roughed out. The intransitive sense of playing too violently has no object to promote, so it stays active. Where it means 'made rough,' roughened says the same thing.
roughed is a form of rough
rough, verb: To create or shape something in an approximate, unfinished form. Full entry
- Spelling
- rough → roughed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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