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   an·neal

   /əˈnē(ə)l/

   verb

   • 1. heat (metal or glass) and allow it to cool slowly, in order to remove internal stresses and make it easier to work: "copper tubes must be annealed after bending or they will be brittle"
   • 2. recombine (DNA) in the double-stranded form.

   Word Origin Old Englishonǣlan, from on + ǣlan ‘burn, bake’ from āl ‘fire, burning’. The original sense was ‘set on fire’, hence (in late Middle English) ‘subject to fire, alter by heating’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. annealer noun

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • A

     1

   • N

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   • E

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   • A

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   • L

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