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roughening up

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English

Syllables
rough-en-ing up
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of roughen up

Questions

What does roughening up mean?
present participle and gerund of roughen up

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