Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word TOUGHEN
TOUGHEN
Definitions of TOUGHEN
- (transitive) To make tough.
- (intransitive) To become tough.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using TOUGHEN in a Sentence
- As the lower parts of the frond expand and toughen up, they begin to photosynthesize, supporting the further growth and expansion of the frond.
- He wanted to join the crew of the Isabella Ridley, and do some service as a sailor, hoping that it would toughen him up for a career in boxing, but the ship was badly damaged in storms while still docked in Timaru.
- When Bond expresses surprise at these feats, Goldfinger explains that Oddjob trains extensively to toughen the striking surfaces of his hands and feet, which have developed a tough callus, significantly increasing his striking power.
- Instead, Moisés Alou revealed that during the baseball season, he'd urinate on his hands to toughen them up.
- Smith also introduced legislation to toughen the prostitution laws of England and Wales, making it a criminal offence to pay for sex with a prostitute controlled by a pimp, with the possibility that anyone caught paying for sex with an illegally trafficked woman could face criminal charges.
- The media's exposure of Thompson's attendance and his colleagues' tolerance of it led the Senate to toughen the rules governing its members and sick leave while also increasing the financial penalties for missing too many sittings during a session.
- A special session in late January passed laws to toughen penalties for home invasion and to tighten parole procedures, but did not pass a Three Strikes Law which Rell, Caligiuri, and Senate Minority Leader John McKinney had favored.
- This Bill was listed before the Dáil on Friday 8 May 2015 and is viewed as a move by the Government to toughen the laws on confiscating criminals' assets and similarly is expected to yield a multimillion-euro windfall for the taxpayer.
- Leaked US communications revealed that Ahern suspected Adams and McGuinness had known about the robbery and this made his attitude towards them toughen.
- He was educated at Eastacre, then Ludgrove School when it was at Cockfosters and described Ludgrove as a place of "humbug, snobbery and rampant, unchecked bullying" which he thought was intended to toughen the boys up.
- Dicks' signing had been part of an effort by Souness to "toughen up" the Liverpool team as he had planned to pair him with fellow hard man, Neil Ruddock.
- The costumer gave him a bandanna to "toughen up" his role, which he kept as he was a Bruce Springsteen fan.
- Poisonous pedagogy, in Katharina Rutschky's definition, aims to inculcate a social superego in the child, to construct a basic defense against drives in the child's psyche, to toughen the child for later life, and to instrumentalize the body parts and senses in favor of socially defined functions.
- Microcrack toughening means that the formation of microcracks before the main crack can toughen the ceramic.
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