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toughened
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective toughened has 2 senses
- toughened(a = adj.all) tough - physically toughened; "the tough bottoms of his feet"
- toughened(a = adj.all) hardened, tempered, treated - made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
THESAURUS
toughened
annealed, backed, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, crusted, crusty, crystallized, fossilized, granulated, hardened, hornified, incrusted, indurate, indurated, lapidified, ossified, petrified, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, steeled, stiffened, strengthened, tempered, vitrified
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