TOUGHENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toughened mean? 

• TOUGHENED (adjective)
  The adjective TOUGHENED has 2 senses:

1. physically toughened

2. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

  Familiarity information: TOUGHENED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOUGHENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Physically toughened

Synonyms:

tough; toughened

Context example:

the tough bottoms of his feet

Similar:

callous; calloused; thickened (having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear)

enured; hardened; inured (made tough by habitual exposure)

weather-beaten (tanned and coarsened from being outdoors)

Also:

rugged (sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring)

experienced; experient (having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation)

strong (having strength or power greater than average or expected)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

Synonyms:

hardened; tempered; toughened; treated

Context example:

tempered glass

Similar:

curable (capable of being hardened by some additive or other agent)

sunbaked (baked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned)

 Context examples 

You’ve become used to Saturn’s demands, and during the process, he has toughened you up.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

From the higher sides of the cog the bowmen could shoot straight down, at a range which was so short as to enable a cloth-yard shaft to pierce through mail-coats or to transfix a shield, though it were an inch thick of toughened wood.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the process of teaching you, he toughened you up, took you out of your comfort zone, and showed you that you were stronger, more resilient, and more resourceful about finding solutions to life’s roadblocks than you ever thought possible.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)