Associations to the word «Toughening»

Wiktionary

TOUGHEN, verb. (transitive) To make tough.
TOUGHEN, verb. (intransitive) To become tough.
TOUGHEN UP, verb. (idiomatic) (ambitransitive) To make or become mentally tougher.

Dictionary definition

TOUGHEN, verb. Make tough or tougher; "This experience will toughen her".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope