MEANING
To heat and condition a material, often with controlled cooling, to change properties such as stress, hardness, or ductility.
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Words that belong together
- anneal glass
- anneal metal
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They annealed the glass to relieve internal stress.
The workshop annealed the metal before shaping it.
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Word forms
- Base
- anneal
- Past tense
- annealed
- Past participle
- annealed
- Present participle
- annealing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- anneal
- Present continuous
- am/is/are annealing
- Present perfect
- have/has annealed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been annealing
- Past
- annealed
- Past continuous
- was/were annealing
- Past perfect
- had annealed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been annealing
- Future
- will anneal
- Future continuous
- will be annealing
- Future perfect
- will have annealed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been annealing
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: anneal; anneals; annealed; annealed; annealing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: anneals.
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