vt 1  :  to heat and then cool (as steel or glass) usu. for softening and making less brittle  2  :  to heat and then cool (nucleic acid) in order to separate strands and induce combination at lower temperatures esp. with complementary strands of a different species vi  :  to be capable of combining with complementary nucleic acid by a process of heating and cooling <some bacterial nucleic acid s well with eukaryotic DNA>  .
 
 
 
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