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Definition of anneals:

(v) : (metallurgy) 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.
(v) : To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
(v) : (genetics, ambitransitive) To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
(n) : (chemistry, metallurgy) An act of annealing.
(v) : (figurative, archaic or poetic) To strengthen or harden.
(v) : (archaic) To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.

Definition of anneals:

(v) : (metallurgy) 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.
(v) : To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
(v) : (genetics, ambitransitive) To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
(n) : (chemistry, metallurgy) An act of annealing.
(v) : (figurative, archaic or poetic) To strengthen or harden.
(v) : (archaic) To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.

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