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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

case-hardened en · ADJ

Meanings

  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: