case-hardened

adj

Definitions

  1. Of metal

    Of metal: harder at its surface, due to a case hardening process.

  2. Hardened by experience.

    • Even a case-hardened monorailist must blench at the thought of the storm such a proposition would create.

The neighborhood

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