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anneal

From Wiktionary

Pronunciation

IPA ^(key): /əˈniːl/
Audio (AU) (file)
Hyphenation: an‧neal

Verb

Plain form
anneal

Third-person singular
anneals

Past tense
annealed

Past participle
annealed

Present participle
annealing

If you anneal something, you heat it and then let it cool slowly so as to make it less brittle.
- Synonyms: temper and toughen
(biochemistry) If you anneal, you recombine DNA into a double-stranded form

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