Noun annealing has 1 sense
- annealing, tempering - hardening something by heat treatment
--1 is a kind of hardening
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Verb anneal has 1 sense
- anneal, temper, normalize - toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling; "temper glass"
--1 is one way to toughen
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Somebody ----s something
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