| 单词 | toughened |
| 释义 | toughened (once / 14122 pages) adj WORD FAMILY toughened: untoughened+/tough: toughen, tougher, toughest, toughly, toughness, toughs/toughen: toughened, toughening, toughens USAGE EXAMPLESHowever, after sanctions were toughened in 1995 the company decided it would no longer sell complete turbines to Iran. The Guardian(Dec 21, 2016) “We are all trying to get the embargo toughened.” The Guardian(Nov 27, 2016) Banking supervision was toughened and moved to the EU level, lessening the chance that bad banks will bring down government finances. Seattle Times(Nov 24, 2016) 1adj physically toughened Syn|Ant tough rugged sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring experienced, experienthaving experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation stronghaving strength or power greater than average or expected callous, calloused, thickenedhaving calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear enured, hardened, inuredmade tough by habitual exposure weather-beatentanned and coarsened from being outdoors tender, untoughened physically untoughened weakwanting in physical strength delicate, softeasily hurt 2adj made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment Syn|Ant hardened, tempered, treated curable capable of being hardened by some additive or other agent sunbakedbaked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned unhardened, untempered not brought to a proper consistency or hardness brittle, unannealed(of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured |
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