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toughed out

toughed out is the simple past and past participle of tough out.

Meaning of tough out

Verb

tough out (third-person singular simple present toughs out, present participle toughing out, simple past and past participle toughed out)

  1. (informal, transitive) To endure (a hardship or challenge) by being tough: relying on one's toughness.
    • Near-synonyms: face it out, stick it out

Questions about toughed out

What is toughed out the simple past and past participle of?
Toughed out is the simple past and past participle of tough out.

Words near toughed out in the dictionary

  1. tough-mindedness
  2. tough-pitch
  3. tough-skinned
  4. toughed
  5. toughed it out
  6. toughed out
  7. toughen
  8. toughen up
  9. toughenable
  10. toughened
  11. toughened up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toughed out (page history and authors); tough out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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