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toughing out

toughing out is the present participle and gerund 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 toughing out

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

Words near toughing out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toughing 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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