anneal
verb (used with object)
to heat (glass, earthenware, metals, etc.) to remove or prevent internal stress.
annealed
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past participleof anneal.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof anneal.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
annealverb (used with object)to heat (glass, earthenware, metals, etc.) to remove or prevent internal stress.
Example Sentences
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They used MAPS, or microporous annealed particle scaffolds.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Gonzalez-Torres and Laycock had seen and loved an earlier work by Horn — a thin, crumpled sheet of annealed gold.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2022
A child of wartime Italy annealed by harsh experience — he starved and was temporarily blinded in boyhood by unexploded ordnance — Mr. Armani possesses plenty of backbone.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2021
Next, the forward and reverse oligonucleotides were annealed and cloned into the pLKO.1 lentiviral vector, which was predigested with EcoRI and AgeI.
From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2017
I would have made a better choice than Travis, now that I had been annealed in the furnace of the Scientific Method.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
