toughen
tuh fuhn
- v make tough or tougher
This experience will toughen her
- Shortly before the riots broke out, his own news agency (Orient Press) reported that Jinnah, anticipating violence, was sleeping on the floor these nightsto toughen up for a .
- His father, convinced that there are forces out to destroy his remaining son, becomes almost abusive in his insistence that Mann toughen up.
- Kemal Ataturk, the most daring of them, introduced Turkey, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, to Western-style secularism in order to toughen his society against .