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annealed

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Word definitions for annealed in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. made less brittle by heating and then cooling; "used annealed paving blocks"

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anneal \An*neal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Annealed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Annealing .] [OE. anelen to heat, burn, AS. an?lan; an on + ?lan to burn; also OE. anelen to enamel, prob. influenced by OF. neeler, nieler, to put a black enamel on gold or silver, F. nieller, ...

Usage examples of annealed.

She took some seat covering and cut it and annealed it into a pair of flare-topped boots and demanded to be taken back to her room.

Most of the time they just annealed metal with a molecular adhesion/cohesion blade.

Jonnie reached out to the dome interior and pulled closed the locking lever which annealed them to the metal the console sat on.

Then they annealed the stone and made it join molecularly so it was armor-hard.

Yet how could she possibly have explained the experience that had annealed her, confirmed her as a Crystal Singer?

For all she sang crystal, she still possessed that priceless human quality, annealed in the fire of his youth.

Amid the heat and fragrancy of the fire, they became like one being, annealed of isolation, complete.

I'm supposed to tell you about boras, and where they come from, and what they do when they're forged and annealed.