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Toughened   /tˈəfənd/   Listen
Toughened

adjective
1.
Physically toughened.  Synonym: tough.
2.
Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment.  Synonyms: hardened, tempered, treated.  "Tempered glass"


Toughen

verb
(past & past part. toughened; pres. part. toughening)
1.
Make tough or tougher.





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"Toughened" Quotes from Famous Books



... hastily placed in the sand near the water's edge, and, grasping their weapons firmly, they prepared to check the advance of the monster. Fortunately the spears and axes were of hard iron and fitted with strong handles which the long storage in the cavern seemed to have toughened. ...
— The River of Darkness - Under Africa • William Murray Graydon
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... disregards money and trade disregards art, the artist may stand not a little trade-alloy and be even toughened by it, and the tradesmen may be more than half an artist. Art is in the world but not of it; it lives in a kingdom of its own, governed by laws that none but artists can understand. This, at least, is the ideal towards which an artist tends, though ...
— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler
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