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hardwearing

hardwearing is the alternative form of hard-wearing.

Meaning of hard-wearing

Adjective

hard-wearing (comparative more hard-wearing, superlative most hard-wearing)

  1. Able to withstand a significant amount of usage without physical deterioration; durable.
    • Throughout B.R. activity to improve drainage and ballast, to lay in more long-welded rails [...] and concrete sleepers, and to provide more hard-wearing pointwork and crossings will be intensified in the next four years.1959 September, “The Re-appraisal of the B.R. Modernisation Plan”, in Trains Illustrated, page 411
    Synonyms:
    heavy-duty

Forms of hardwearing

comparativemore hardwearing
superlativemost hardwearing

Questions about hardwearing

What is hardwearing the alternative form of?
Hardwearing is the alternative form of hard-wearing.

Words near hardwearing in the dictionary

  1. hardwarily
  2. hardwater
  3. hardway
  4. hardways
  5. hardwear
  6. hardwearing
  7. Hardwick
  8. Hardwick with Tusmore
  9. Hardwick-with-Yelford
  10. Hardwicke
  11. Hardwickes

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