coarsen's Usage Examples:

His dress, the simplicity of his external appearance, the friendly meekness of the old man, and the apparent humility of the Quaker, procured for Freedom a mass of votaries among the court circles who used to be alarmed at its coarseness and unsophisticated truths.

It had no pretensions to verbal accuracy, and the coarseness of the language was modified to suit European taste, but the narrative was adequately rendered.

The frequent coarseness of tone is proper to the condition of Egyptian society under the Mameluke sultans, and would not have been tolerated in Bagdad in the age to which so many of the tales refer.

this coarseness and the consequent brittleness are removed, by reheating them much above Ac 3, which also relieves the internal stresses due to the different rates at which different layers cool, and hence contract, during and after solidification.

In fact, the characteristic coarsening of the facial features is often not recognized by family members, friends, or long-time family physicians.

Symptoms include coarsening of the facial features, enlargement of the hands, feet, ears, and nose, jutting of the jaw, and a long face.

The larger materials include gravel of all degrees of coarseness; carbonaceous matter is often an important element.

For instance, if steel has been coarsened by heating to 1400° C.

This coarsening and the brittleness which accompanies it increase with the temperature to which the metal has been exposed.

His coarseness, moreover, disgusting as it is, has nothing of the corruption of refined voluptuousness about it, and nothing of the sniggering indecency which disgraces men like Pope, like Voltaire, and like Sterne.

The amount of moisture retained depends mainly upon the absorbability of the soil, and as it depends largely on capillary action it varies with the coarseness or fineness of the pores of the soil, being greater for soils which consist of fine particles.

The qualities, too have to be considered - the fulness of one, the flatness of the other, or the coarseness or fineness of the furs.

medallion profile had coarsened, the obese body was often lymphatic.

Synonyms:

change, alter, modify,

Antonyms:

detransitivize, focus, wet, stabilise,