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单词 coarsen
释义
coarsen
verb[IorT]
uk
/ˈkɔː.sən/us
/ˈkɔːr.sən/

coarsenverb[I or T](ROUGH)

tobecomeroughorcausesomething tobecomerough:
（使）变粗；使粗糙
In highsummer, thesaladleavescoarsen andbecomebitter.
He coarsens thepaintbymixingit withmarbledust.
More examples
  • Thetoneof hisvoicehas coarsened and hissinginglackstheelegantfinesseheoncepossessed.
  • Thevoicetendsto coarsen when underpressureinhigherregisters.
  • Thefacadeof thehousehaslostitsrender,exposingstonescoarsened byage.
  • Sun andtimecoarsen theskin.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making things more or less smooth or straight
  • bunch
  • bunch(something)up
  • coarsening
  • creased
  • crinkle
  • crinkled
  • fold
  • folding
  • furl
  • grooming
  • interfold
  • pucker
  • pumice stone
  • sand
  • sandpaper
  • screw
  • sleek
  • sleek back/down
  • smoothen
  • wrinkle
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coarsenverb[I or T](NOT POLITE)

tobecomesimplerand lesspoliteor moreoffensive, or to make something do this:
Readers'tasteshave coarsened, heclaims.
Theyfeelthat theentertainmentindustryhas coarsenedourculture.
More examples
  • Often, in thepursuitof thelargestaudience,television"dumbs down" and coarsens.
  • Thispresentationofextremeviolenceasentertainment, he says, coarsensoursociety.
  • He and hisalliesareseenas having coarsened thepoliticaldebate.
  • He has been coarsened andcorruptedby theworldofbusiness.
  • We are all being coarsened by thiscontinualdietofexploitativeTV.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Becoming too excited and easily upset
  • ado
  • ant
  • antsy
  • at the end ofyourtetheridiom
  • be in a whirlidiom
  • demented
  • febrile
  • have thin/thick skinidiom
  • high-strung
  • highly strung
  • hot under the collaridiom
  • hyper
  • hysterical
  • lather
  • overeagerness
  • oversensitive
  • overwrought
  • shockable
  • slay
  • whirl
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(Definition ofcoarsenfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • At any rate his agreeable voice had not coarsened.
  • But labor has done nothing to coarsen the innate refinement of the soul which looks out of the fine old face.
  • Heating steel at even moderate temperature is liable to coarsen the grain which can only be restored by forging or by heat treating.
  • She grew stout, too, and unwieldy, and her skin coarsened from lack of care and overeating.
coarsen
verb[IorT]
uk
/ˈkɔː.sən/us
/ˈkɔːr.sən/
tobecomeroughorcausesomething tobecomerough
（使）变粗；使粗糙

Examplesofcoarsen

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The 1881 presidential campaign coarsened : journalists, unfettered by libel laws, caricatured, mocked, and even insulted the once revered general.
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In fact, this phenomenon should rather be interpreted as 'mesh coarsening' away from the point of evaluation.
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Numerical results are presented to confirm part of the analysis and to explore the difference between the two models on coarsening dynamics.
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Note that for post-processing, the mesh has been coarsened by a factor of 2 in each direction.
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By coarsening we mean in particular the decrease of the number of droplets in time.
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Our numerical results clearly distinguish different stages of coarsening such as the initial preparation and the alternating rapid structural transition and slow motion.
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Plane-laminated and cross-stratified sandstone facies constitute an interbedded succession and oftencoarsenupward.
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As the interface region moves the mesh is refined and coarsened appropriately.
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Those, in turn, can be controlled by locally refining or coarsening the computational mesh.
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Sandstone beds in this type of cycle thicken andcoarsenupward, with grain size ranging from fine to coarse.
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This ' coarsening ' of the domain structure is driven by free energy minimisation.
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With probability one, solutionscoarsento one of the two stable constant solutions, u +1.
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The coarsening process can be mediated by two mechanisms: collapse and collision of droplets.
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Exsolution and coarsening mechanisms and kinetics in an ordered cryptoperthite series.
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My senses are finer edged than they were, instead of being dulled and coarsened.
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