"tough-love" meaning in English

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      "form": "tough-loves",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tough-loving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tough-loved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tough-loved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Estella Conwill Majozo, Come Out the Wilderness: Memoir of a Black Woman Artist, page 239",
          "text": "The system's got some of our finest men being tough-loved to death!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Malinda Teel, Fortitude: True Stories of True Grit, page 87",
          "text": "In time, the counselors at the program tough-loved me into acknowledging that I was using my disabilities as an excuse to drink and drug.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, John Cantwell Kiley, The Breakaway Pope, page 41",
          "text": "He must be tough-loved by the Church.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Thomas Henderson, Frank Luksa, In Control: The Rebirth of an NFL Legend, page 87",
          "text": "He tough-loved the hell out of me without ever knowing what tough love meant.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To practice tough love; to treat someone with compassionate but stringent discipline in order to improve their behavior."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "tough love",
          "tough love"
        ],
        [
          "compassionate",
          "compassionate"
        ],
        [
          "stringent",
          "stringent"
        ],
        [
          "discipline",
          "discipline"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tough-love"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tough-loves",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tough-loving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tough-loved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tough-loved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Estella Conwill Majozo, Come Out the Wilderness: Memoir of a Black Woman Artist, page 239",
          "text": "The system's got some of our finest men being tough-loved to death!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Malinda Teel, Fortitude: True Stories of True Grit, page 87",
          "text": "In time, the counselors at the program tough-loved me into acknowledging that I was using my disabilities as an excuse to drink and drug.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, John Cantwell Kiley, The Breakaway Pope, page 41",
          "text": "He must be tough-loved by the Church.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Thomas Henderson, Frank Luksa, In Control: The Rebirth of an NFL Legend, page 87",
          "text": "He tough-loved the hell out of me without ever knowing what tough love meant.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To practice tough love; to treat someone with compassionate but stringent discipline in order to improve their behavior."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tough love",
          "tough love"
        ],
        [
          "compassionate",
          "compassionate"
        ],
        [
          "stringent",
          "stringent"
        ],
        [
          "discipline",
          "discipline"
        ]
      ]
    }
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  "word": "tough-love"
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