0 present participle of toughen --
1 to make something or someone tough, strong, or stronger: --
2 to become difficult to deal with: --
Amid toughening competition in the market, many firms are going out of business.
I support the toughening up of bail conditions.
It gives them a leisure activity that is fun, that is demanding, physically toughening and socially friendly.
Toughening up asylum legislation is not the right approach; in fact, it is the complete opposite.
We are, again with your support, addressing the shortcomings of our integrated financial market by toughening financial regulation and implementing the new supervisory architecture.
There is a great deal of benefit in a sensible process of change and toughening up of investor protection where it is necessary.
Individual cases will represent some of the reasons for toughening our approach.
Other possible ways of reducing costs include toughening up or expanding the requirements for licensing new drugs.
One was a toughening of containment and the other was a move towards military action.
