anneal /ə-nēlˈ/

1. To heat and cool gradually (glass, metals), esp in order to temper or toughen
2. To heat (eg glass) in order to fix colours on (archaic)
3. To strengthen, toughen
4. To reform the duplex structure of (a nucleic acid) (biochemistry)

annealˈer noun

annealˈing noun

• breadnuts
• bread pudding
• bread puddings
• breadroom
• breadrooms
• breadroot
• breadroots
• breads
• bread sauce
• bread sauces
• breadstick
• breadsticks
• bread studies
• bread study
• breadstuff
• breadstuffs
• breadth
• breadths
• breadthways
• breadthwise
• bread tree
• bread trees
• breadwinner
• breadwinners
• break