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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

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