закалявам — meaning in English

English meaning

• anneal verb 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.
• chill noun An uncomfortable feeling of coldness.
• harden verb To become hard, or to make something hard or harder.
• quench verb To satisfy thirst, or more broadly, a strong desire.
• temper noun A person's tendency to become angry, or a fit of anger itself.

Senses

закалявам is used for these senses in English:

• anneal (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.
• chill (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
• harden (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder.
• harden (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
• quench (transitive, metallurgy) To cool rapidly by direct contact with liquid coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
• temper To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.

anneal — full definition

1. verb 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.
2. verb To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
3. verb To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
4. verb To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.

chill — full definition

1. noun An uncomfortable feeling of coldness.
2. adj Calm and relaxed; easygoing about a situation.
3. verb To make something cold, or to become cold.
4. verb To relax and take it easy, often with other people.

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