Word Meanings - TOUGHEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To grow or make tough, or tougher.

Related words: (words related to TOUGHEN)

• TOUGH-CAKE
  See
• TOUGHEN
  To grow or make tough, or tougher.
• TOUGH-HEAD
  The ruddy duck.
• TOUGHLY
  In a tough manner.
• TOUGH-PITCH
  The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
• TOUGHISH
  Tough in a slight degree.
• TOUGH
  toh, akin to D. taai, LG. taa, tage, tau, OHG. zahi, G. zähe, and 1. Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.
• TOUGHNESS
  The quality or state of being tough.