different between coarsen vs hoarsen

English

Etymology

coarse +? -en

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??(?)s?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s?n

Verb

coarsen (third-person singular simple present coarsens, present participle coarsening, simple past and past participle coarsened)

1. (transitive) To make (more) coarse.
   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 6 "D'Sonoqua," [1]

     She appeared to be neither wooden nor stationary, but a singing spirit, young and fresh, passing through the jungle. No violence coarsened her; no power domineered to wither her. She was graciously feminine.

   • 1978, R. Z. Sheppard, "She-Wits and Funny Persons," Time, 29 February, 1978, [2]

     […] as the years went by, democracy and its wide audiences tended to broaden and coarsen humor.

2. (intransitive) To become (more) coarse.
   • 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, "The Beating," [3]

     He was intolerable now except under the influence of liquor, and as he seemed to decay and coarsen under her eyes, Gloria's soul and body shrank away from him […]

Anagrams

• Carones, Creason, Croesan, Sarceno, canoers, carnose, corneas, earcons, narcose, sea corn, seacorn, sorance

English

Etymology

hoarse +? -en.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)s?n

Verb

hoarsen (third-person singular simple present hoarsens, present participle hoarsening, simple past and past participle hoarsened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become hoarse.

Translations

Anagrams

• Hearons, Hornsea, Shearon, an heros