toughened
Meaning of toughened
verb, past tense
- make or become stronger or more resilient.
he tried to toughen his son up by sending him to public school
a falcon has scaly skin on its legs that toughens up very quickly
Information about toughened
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of toughened
tough-ened
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- toughened is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
toughened synonyms
Meaning tough:
Meaning tempered:
Meaning make or become stronger:
Meaning provide (a place) with defensive works as protection against attack:
Meaning strengthen or support (an object or substance), especially with additional material:
Meaning make or become more severe and less sympathetic:
Meaning make or become stronger or more steadfast:
Meaning make (something) physically stronger or more solid:
Meaning improve the consistency or resiliency of (a substance) by means of a process involving heat or chemicals:
Meaning add salt, herbs, pepper, or other spices to (food):
Meaning make or become rigid or inflexible:
Meaning make or become thick or thicker:
Meaning make or become rough:
Meaning harden:
Meaning heat (metal or glass) and allow it to cool slowly, in order to remove internal stresses and toughen it:
Meaning fix with cement:
Meaning mentally prepare (oneself) to do or face something difficult:
Meaning make unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses:
Meaning make (someone) cruel, violent, or insensitive to the pain of others by repeated exposure to violence:
Meaning accustom (someone) to something, especially something unpleasant:
toughened antonyms
Meaning make or become soft or softer:
Words that rhyme with toughened
ened, Damascened, damascened, fiercened, piecened, scened, bemaddened, boldened, broadened, burdened, casehardened, deadened, disburdened, disemburdened, emboldened, gardened, gladdened, goldened, hardened, hoidened, hoydened, imboldened, ladened, leadened, loadened, loudened, maddened, mildened, oldened, outreddened, overburdened, prehardened, rebroadened, reddened, rehardened, rewidened, saddened, semihardened, soddened, superhardened, unbroadened, unburdened, undeadened, undisburdened, ungardened, ungladdened, unhardened, unimboldened, unmaddened, unsaddened
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