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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
To cut or shape something roughly without finishing or tidying the surface..
Our indiscretion sometimes serues vs well, / When our deare plots do paule, and that should teach vs, / There's a Diuinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew them how we will.
It seems to me, then, that one must either be a ‘marinist’ […], or be a sub-äerialist, and believe that in Pre-Permian times the sea rough-hewed a block of country which the atmosphere has ever since been carving into its now complex and beautiful form.
Its erosion is a constant process of alternate rough hewing and planing.
Use rough-hew when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rough-hew means To cut or shape something roughly without finishing or tidying the surface..
Common synonyms include roughcast.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Our indiscretion sometimes serues vs well, / When our deare plots do paule, and that should teach vs, / There's a Diuinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew them how we will.
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