Definition of "annealed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of anneal. (verb)

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• "All I could tell him is that when you see it start to change color, you've permanently altered (as in annealed) the steel."
• "But the great pressure to which the sheets are subjected makes the alloy very brittle, so that it has to be softened or "annealed," as it is called, by being heated red-hot in very large ovens before each re-rolling."
• "I prefer 7.62 NATO cases for reloading because its heavier case and more reloads per case and the necks are annealed."