case-hardened

See also: casehardened and case hardened

English

Adjective

case-hardened

1. Alternative spelling of case hardened
2. Hardened by experience.
   • 1964 July, “The mythology of monorails”, in Modern Railways, page 57:

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

References

• “case-hardened”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.