Usually means: Make rough, harsh, or irritating.
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  1. asperate: Merriam-Webster
  2. asperate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. asperate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. asperate: Wordnik
  5. asperate: Wiktionary
  6. asperate: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Asperate, asperate: Dictionary.com
  8. Asperate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. asperate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Asperate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. asperate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. asperate: FreeDictionary.org
  13. asperate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. asperate: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (asperate)

▸ verb:  To make rough or harsh.
▸ adjective:  Rough.

Similar:
acerbate, ascerbate, abrade, harshen, aggravate, brutalise, rough, coarsen, unsmooth, acidify, more...

Opposite:
smooth, flat, even, level, unrough

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Similar:
acerbate, ascerbate, abrade, harshen, aggravate, brutalise, rough, coarsen, unsmooth, acidify, more...

Opposite:
smooth, flat, even, level, unrough



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