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case-hardened

case-hardened adjective: of metal: harder at its surface, due to a case hardening process.

Adjective

case-hardened

  1. Of metal: harder at its surface, due to a case hardening process.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Hardened by experience.
    • Even a case-hardened monorailist must blench at the thought of the storm such a proposition would create.1964 July, “The mythology of monorails”, in Modern Railways, page 57

Questions about case-hardened

What does case-hardened mean?
Case-hardened means of metal: harder at its surface, due to a case hardening process.
What part of speech is case-hardened?
Case-hardened is an adjective.

Words near case-hardened in the dictionary

  1. case-based reasoning
  2. case-book
  3. case-books
  4. case-by-case
  5. case-dependent
  6. case-hardened
  7. case-hardening
  8. case-in-chief
  9. case-independent
  10. case-insensitive
  11. case-sensitive

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