anneal

anneal is a 6-letter English word with 3 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
2. transitive verb. To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.
3. verb. bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling

   "temper glass"

   Synonyms: normalize, temper

Synonyms

normalize, temper

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in anneal:

annale

Common word forms

anneals, annealed, annealer, annealing

Words from these letters

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