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tougheningverbpresent participle of toughen to increase the ability of (as a muscle) to exert physical forceweight lifting will help toughen those flabby muscles of yours beefing (up), fortifying, hardening, strengthening annealing, temperingfirming (up), toning (up)energizing, invigorating, vitalizingrestrengthening debilitating, enervating, enfeebling, weakening crippling, incapacitating, paralyzingdamaging, harming, hurting, impairing, injuringbreaking down, wearing outsapping, undercutting, undermining to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposurehiking every morning through snow and ice toughened him considerably fortifying, hardening, indurating, inuring, seasoning, steeling, strengthening acclimating, acclimatizing, adapting, adjustingannealing, temperinginvigorating, vitalizingimmunizingbolstering, boosting, bracing, buttressing, enforcing, forearming, propping (up), reinforcing(also reenforcing), supportingbreaking in, limbering (up), trainingaccustoming, conditioning, habituating, naturalizing softening emasculating, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, sapping, weakeningcrippling, debilitating, hamstringing, incapacitatingsensitizing to make more harsh, uncompromising, or severeattempts to toughen conditions under which waivers from military service would be permitted hardening, harshening, stiffening, strengthening ameliorating, easing lessening, moderating, softening |