coarsen

Living in a large city, though, has a way of coarsening you.

His face had been lined and coarsened by the wind.

The boy looks 17 or 18; his features are coarsening, he's becoming a man.

"I've coarsened a little, but this country will take your bloom."

Few people doubt that the events of the last year have coarsened the national political discourse.

The surface had coarsened, in the way a drunkard's face does.

Why as a nation do we periodically presume that society is coarsened by culture?

But the alcohol, at 13.7 percent, coarsened and unbalanced everything.

The singers, too, might have been coarsened by all the activity they had to indulge in.

Richard saw that their skin had coarsened from menial work.

Stressful conditions that did not exist a decade ago have coarsened behavior as well.

By this time, his voice had hardened and coarsened.

After that age they are coarsened, concerned only with security and marriage.'

Victor's voice coarsened in a way that Jerry recognized as dangerous.

His childish beauty had coarsened, but he was thought handsome by many.

Her tone coarsened a bit during the evening, and pitch control loosened.

By then Smith's understanding of the Indians had coarsened, in step with his country's.

But in recent years, justice has been coarsening.

The minstrel's features coarsened and his voice dropped to a lower register.

His reedy voice had coarsened with the bad cold.

"Your face and features," she said, "seem to have coarsened.

At other times his face was coarsened by days of drunken debauchery."

On some of the new routes "coarsened" rather than flat fares were to be introduced.

But, he said, "some of the culprits in coarsening the dialogue on the war have been Republicans, including the vice president at times."

And at Tuesday evening's show, his vocal velvet seemed noticeably to have coarsened.