anneal /əˈniːl/verb 5noun 1forms 3 verb5 •To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.I felt his strong bones anneal themselves to my own, his blood vent its bright tide into my veins, the semen of his testicles foam as it dashed in a torrent against mine. — 1979 •To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress. •(literary, figurative) To strengthen or harden.The experience annealed them, strengthening their resolve. •To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand. •(no longer used) To burn colors onto a glass or other surface. noun1 •An act of annealing.Additional information obtained from counting krypton-85 released during the anneals shows that only fractions of a per cent of the theoretical amount of gas are released […] — 1958 formsannealed · annealing · anneals
