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roughs it

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present tense third-person singular of rough it

as in camps (out)

to live in a camp or the outdoors They spent a week roughing it in the woods.

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Recent Examples of roughs it On Black Rabbit, Bateman the director takes the color palette and dark lighting of Ozark and roughs it up. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026

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