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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
toughen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
- adjective physically toughened
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Examples
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Soldiers spin toughened to doing quick as good as ruthlessly what contingency be finished to save themselves.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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Soldiers spin toughened to doing quick as good as ruthlessly what contingency be finished to save themselves.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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This may sound attractive for anyone who's seen their credit card terms toughened in the past year.
poststar.com RSS 2010
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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.
Turning a Wallstreet Giveaway into an Economic Rescue for All Americans 2008
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"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.
open Democracy News Analysis - Comments ayeaye 2008
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The last week she said she had got "toughened," and did not shiver.
Canadian Crusoes Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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As a high-school student in downtown New York in the 1980s, she twice witnessed street violence and says the experience "toughened" her.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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Said Matt: "" Coming from a big family really kind of toughened me up.
SplicedFeed 2010
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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.
Suburban Guerrilla 2008
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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.
In These Times 2008
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