toughening Definition

tightening, strengthening, hardening, intensifying, reinforcing, intensification, resurgence, upsurge, escalation, curing, hardness, recrudescence, flare-up, loosening, stiffening, softening, cracking, ratcheting, easing, sterner, overhauling, revamping, clamping, weakening, zero tolerance, shoring, buckling, crackdown, laxer, stringency, lessening, clampdown, scrapping, reshaping, lengthening, ramping, broadening, slackening, leniency, changes, rewriting, enforcement, firming, bulking, reform, legislation, rethinking, tweaking, streamlining, mellowing, fraying, busting, governing, enforcers, reworking, balking, redoubling, rachet, abolition, flouting, dismantling, cutting, souring, legalization, slowing, criminalization, regulation, laxity, strengthing, amendments, phasing, thawing, europeanisation, sharpening, shortening, shift, outlaw, reimposition, stifling, drafting, disciplining, restrictiveness, bans, laws, harmonization, unraveling, rough sledding, defiance, enactment, stance, refashioning, curb, backsliding, hardball, strictness, revision, wariness, unacceptability, setting, wavering,