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1 to become or make sth stronger, so that it is not easily cut, broken, etc:
[VN] toughened glass [also V]
2 [VN] to make sth such as laws or rules stricter:
The government is considering toughening up the law on censorship.
3 [VN] to make sb stronger and more able to deal with difficult situations:
His parents sent him away to school to toughen him up.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for toughen is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does toughen appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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