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case hardened

case hardened is the simple past and past participle of case harden.

case hardened is the alternative form of case-hardened.

Meaning of case harden

Verb

case harden (third-person singular simple present case hardens, present participle case hardening, simple past and past participle case hardened)

  1. To impart greater hardness to the surface of a piece of metal.

Meaning of case-hardened

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

Forms of case hardened

Verb
alternative formcase-hardened
Adjective
comparativemore case hardened
superlativemost case hardened

Questions about case hardened

What is case hardened the simple past and past participle of?
Case hardened is the simple past and past participle of case harden.

Words near case hardened in the dictionary

  1. case fraction
  2. case fractions
  3. case grammar
  4. case grammars
  5. case harden
  6. case hardened
  7. case hardening
  8. case hardens
  9. case head
  10. case heads
  11. case histories

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Adapted from Wiktionary: case hardened (page history and authors); case harden (page history and authors); case-hardened (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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