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Synonyms for case-hardened
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : keys-hahr-dn |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkeɪsˌhɑr dn |
Top 10 synonyms for case-hardened
- acclimate
- acclimatize
- accustomed
- adapt
- adjust
- benumbed
- blind to
- blunt
- brutalize
- callous
- callus
- case-harden
- case-hardened
- climatize
- coarsen
- cold
- conform
- contemptuous
- cruel
- deaden
- deaf to
- develop
- discipline
- disdainful
- dull
- embitter
- habituate
- habituated
- hard
- hard-as-nails
- hard-bitten
- hard-boiled
- hardened
- hardhearted
- impassive
- impenetrable
- impenitent
- impious
- inaccessible
- indurate
- indurated
- inflexible
- insensate
- insensible
- insentient
- inure
- inured
- irreverent
- make callous
- numb
- obdurate
- obtuse
- paralyze
- prepared
- render insensitive
- resistant
- roughen
- season
- soulless
- spiritless
- steel
- steeled
- stiff
- stiffen
- stony
- strengthen
- stubborn
- stun
- stupefy
- teach
- thick-skinned
- torpid
- tough
- toughened
- train
- unaffected
- unashamed
- unbending
- uncompassionate
- unconcerned
- unemotional
- unfeeling
- unimpressionable
- unrepenting
- unresponsive
- unsubmissive
- unsusceptible
Définition of case-hardened
- As in callous : adj cruel, insensitive
- As in hardened : adj unfeeling
- As in harden : verb accustom
- The worst company in Verona, Excellency—the most brazen, the most case-hardened.
- Extract from : « Little Novels of Italy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
- Her experience of the previous year had made her case-hardened.
- Extract from : « Marjorie Dean College Freshman » by Pauline Lester
- I thought I was case-hardened, but just tell me that you loved me then!
- Extract from : « The Argosy » by Various
- I have been so much buffeted about in war and by sea that I am case-hardened, and this too may go with the rest.
- Extract from : « The Odyssey » by Homer
- We get "case-hardened" to trouble as the years bend our shoulders.
- Extract from : « Hiram The Young Farmer » by Burbank L. Todd
- It's a merciless world, Miss St. Quentin, and no one knows that better than we case-hardened old sinners of doctors.
- Extract from : « The History of Sir Richard Calmady » by Lucas Malet
- Case-hardened politicians and men about town avoided Martigny's, for the reason that they could never get enough there.
- Extract from : « From School to Battle-field » by Charles King
- They were case-hardened by continual contact with the war game, and too careless, perhaps, of flying lead.
- Extract from : « Our Young Aeroplane Scouts in Germany » by Horace Porter
- Cam-shaft is of steel, with cams forged integral, drilled for lightness and forced-feed lubrication, and is case-hardened.
- Extract from : « Aviation Engines » by Victor Wilfred Pag
- His was a soul entirely cynical and atheistic; greedy of gain only, case-hardened by crime.
- Extract from : « Darkness and Dawn » by Frederic W. Farrar
Antonyms for case-hardened
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