What is the meaning of toughened?

verb

  • Make tough or tougher.
    • usage: "This experience will toughen her"

adjective

  • Physically toughened.
    • usage: "the tough bottoms of his feet"
  • Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment.
    • usage: "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
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