anneal
verb (used with object)
to heat (glass, earthenware, metals, etc.) to remove or prevent internal stress.
unannealed
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a word derived from
anneal.
Example Sentences
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Because of the twelve-month troop-rotation policy, each combat unit gets periodic transfusions of "new guys" unannealed by fire.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ha! rogue—rogue," panted Sir Pertolepe, "would'st leave me to die in a noose, unshriven and unannealed, my soul dragged hell-wards weighted with my sins?"
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
In all these phenomena the behavior was that of unannealed glass, of which so many curious performances have been related.
From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various
Honey-dew 511 Ergot a disease of rye 513 Glass unannealed.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
He saw the country in full dress, and had little or no opportunity of judging of it unhouselled, disappointed, unannealed, with all its imperfections on its head, as I and my family too often had.
From Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
