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
Maxwell found that, for unannealed glass, pieces of window-glass placed in bundles of eight or nine, one on the other, answered the purpose very well.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett
He saw the country in full dress, and had little or no opportunity of judging of it unhouselled, unanointed, unannealed, with all its imperfections on its head, as I and my family too often had.
From Life on the Mississippi, Part 12. by Mark Twain
But the one thing she could not bear was that either Frenchmen or Englishmen should die unconfessed, "unhouseled, disappointed, unannealed."
From Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
