Usually means: Made stronger through stress, treatment.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. toughened: Merriam-Webster
  2. toughened: Collins English Dictionary
  3. toughened: Vocabulary.com
  4. Toughened, toughened: Wordnik
  5. toughened: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. toughened: Wiktionary
  7. toughened: Dictionary.com
  8. toughened: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Toughened: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. toughened: Rhymezone
  11. Toughened: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. toughened: FreeDictionary.org
  13. toughened: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. toughened: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. toughened: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from WordNet (toughened)

▸ adjective:  physically toughened
▸ adjective:  made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment


Opposite:
softened, weakened, emasculated

Phrases:
toughened glass, toughened silver nitrate, more...

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Opposite:
softened, weakened, emasculated

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toughened glass, toughened silver nitrate, more...




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