The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STEELS which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2022.
Toughens crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STEELS | 29 % | 6 |
| INURES | 29 % | 6 |
| ANNEALS | 24 % | 7 |
| ENURES | 19 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Toughens
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- annealed
- baked
- burned
- burnt
- calloused
- enured
- hardened
- inured
- sunbaked
- tempered
- thickened
- tough
Crossword Answer definitions
STEELS noun- An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
- Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
- Varieties of this metal.
- (colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- Extreme hardness or resilience.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- (of mirrors) To back with steel.
- To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
- To press with a flat iron.
- To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
- To sharpen with a honing steel.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result STEELS
- Prepares for action
- Prepares for battle
- Stiffens up
- Makes tough
- Hardens
- Fills with resolution
- Toughens (oneself)
- Makes resolute
- Stiffens
- Becomes resolved
More clues leading to the result INURES
- Habituates
- Becomes used (to)
- Accustoms
- Habituates (to)
- Hardens
- Hardens (to)
- Gets used (to)
- Accustoms (to)
- Hardens or habituates
- Accustoms, as to hardship
More clues leading to the result ANNEALS
- Hardens chemically
- Tempers, in a way
- Tempers
- Strengthens, as steel
- Prepares earthenware, in a way
- Toughens
- Tempers steel by heating and cooling.
- Tempers metal.
- Strengthens and tempers.
- Heats, as glass, to fix colors.