Synonyms of annealing

annealing

verb

present participle of anneal

as in hardening

to make stronger (as through hardship)

She was annealed by the tragedies of her childhood.

Related Words

• hardening
• strengthening
• tempering
• reinforcing
• fortifying
• adjusting
• toughening
• adapting
• bracing
• inuring
• seasoning
• steeling
• acclimating
• invigorating
• vitalizing
• immunizing
• supporting
• indurating
• enforcing
• acclimatizing
• conditioning
• bolstering
• training
• buttressing
• propping (up)
• breaking in
• forearming
• boosting
• limbering (up)
• habituating
• accustoming
• naturalizing

Dissimilar Words

• exhausting
• weakening
• enervating
• sapping
• crippling
• debilitating
• softening
• incapacitating
• enfeebling
• sensitizing
• hamstringing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of annealing

The telecom giant plans to use D-Wave’s quantum annealing technology to tackle complex optimization problems across its network operations. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026

Over the next five years, real value will come from applying quantum principles, such as annealing and probabilistic optimization, to supply chains, finance and logistics before fault-tolerant quantum arrives. — Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 12 Feb. 2026

Engineers sparingly tried annealing hardware space, so Juno's experience could be instructive for future missions. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025

Workable quantum solutions that make use of annealing systems are now in use. — Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025

Returning to Chip Design Tradition A common way to solve massive combinatorial optimization problems is with a search technique called simulated annealing (SA). — Somdeb Majumdar, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2024