toughened
IPA: tˈʌfʌnd
adjective
- physically toughened
- made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
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Examples of "toughened" in Sentences
- The last week she said she had got "toughened," and did not shiver.
- Said Matt: "" Coming from a big family really kind of toughened me up.
- This may sound attractive for anyone who's seen their credit card terms toughened in the past year.
- Soldiers spin toughened to doing quick as good as ruthlessly what contingency be finished to save themselves.
- As a high-school student in downtown New York in the 1980s, she twice witnessed street violence and says the experience "toughened" her.
- "extract equity" from the rising value of the house and in this way meet the higher repayments when the repayment terms toughened in a year or two.
- Alternately, the Democratic leadership could add in key Democratic priorities, such as toughened financial regulations, bankruptcy law reforms helping homeowners prevent foreclosure, direct government aid to mortgagees, a tax on the financial industry to pay for the bailout, and the job-creating $60 billion economic stimulus/infrastructure spending package the House passed a few days ago.
- Alternately, the Democratic leadership could add in key Democratic priorities, such as toughened financial regulations, bankruptcy law reforms helping homeowners prevent foreclosure, direct government aid to mortgagees, a tax on the financial industry to pay for the bailout, and the job-creating $60 billion economic stimulus / infrastructure spending package the House passed a few days ago.
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