case-hardened : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: case-hardened	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for case-hardened
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
case-hardened adj used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case- hardened judge" Synonym(s): case-hardened, hardened, hard- boiled
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Casehardened \Case"hard`ened\, a. 1. Having the surface hardened, as iron tools. 2. Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.