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Anneal

əˈniːl

Anneal definitions

verb

Inflections:

anneal annealed annealing anneals

heat (metal or glass) and allow it to cool slowly, in order to remove internal stresses and make it easier to work

"copper tubes must be annealed after bending or they will be brittle"

Synonyms:
solidify set become hard become solid congeal clot coagulate stiffen thicken cake freeze bake crystallize
recombine (DNA) in the double-stranded form