Associations to the word «Toughening»
Noun
Adverb
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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.