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TOUGHEN
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they toughen ... he / she / it toughens
Past simple: toughened
Past participle: toughened
-ing form: toughening
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make tough or tougher
Example:
This experience will toughen her
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "toughen" is one way to...):
strengthen (gain strength)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "toughen"):
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
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