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TOUGHEN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

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"):

harden; season (make fit)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

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