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toughing it out

toughing it out is the present participle of tough it out.

Meaning of tough it out

Verb

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

  1. Synonym of tough out.
    Synonyms:
    tough out

Questions about toughing it out

What is toughing it out the present participle of?
Toughing it out is the present participle of tough it out.

Words near toughing it out in the dictionary

  1. toughest nuts to crack
  2. toughhearted
  3. toughie
  4. toughies
  5. toughing
  6. toughing it out
  7. toughing out
  8. toughish
  9. toughly
  10. toughminded
  11. toughmindedly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toughing it out (page history and authors); tough it 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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