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roughed it

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past tense of rough it

as in camped (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 roughed it The skeleton crew roughed it from the Himalayas to the desert in Rajasthan and the jungle in Odisha. — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2026

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“Roughed it.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roughed%20it. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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