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ROUGH-HEW
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Irregular inflected form: rough-hewn
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hew roughly, without finishing the surface
Example:
rough-hew stone or timber
Synonyms:
rough-hew; roughcast
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "rough-hew" is one way to...):
hew; hew out (make or shape as with an axe)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something