Materials
Synonyms for toughen
The synonym for toughen recorded in this bank is anneal, in the sense "to make glass or metal less liable to break, especially through heat treatment". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for toughen
- annealverb, in the sense "to make glass or metal less liable to break, especially through heat treatment"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and toughen carries one sense so far.
to make glass or metal less liable to break, especially through heat treatment
Glassblowers toughen each vase by letting it cool slowly overnight in a special oven, which keeps it from cracking later.
The true synonym
anneal
Same sentence, swapped: Glassblowers anneal each vase by letting it cool slowly overnight in a special oven, which keeps it from cracking later.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for toughen in the sentence quoted.
- smelt
- etch
- gild
Where toughen turns up in the game
toughen is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play toughen
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so toughen reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because materials is the company toughen keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. toughen carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.