Case-hardened

Definitions: Case-hardened

Case-hardened

Adjective

1. Used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge".

Date "case-hardened" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1864. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Case-hardened Impenetrable to all sense of honour or shame. The allusion is to iron toughened by carbonising the surface in contact with charcoal in a case or closed box. It is done by heat. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Case-hardened

Synonyms: hard-boiled (adj), hardened (adj). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: case hardened (metallurgy).

Crosswords: Case-hardened

English words defined with "case-hardened": case-hardened steel ♦ hard-boiled, hardened. (references)

Specialty definitions using "case-hardened": patinated chert ♦ Rockwell hardness test. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Steel sheets from which body parts for halftrac cars will be made are case-hardened in a large Eastern plant converted from the manufacture of locks and safes. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Case-hardened" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Case-hardened" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	2	245,945

Language		Translations for "case-hardened"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		закоравял (callous, chronic, confirmed, crusted, double-dyed, habitual, hard boiled, indurate, ingrain, ingrained, inveterate, irreclaimable, obdurate, tough), закален (seasoned, weather beaten, weathered, weather-worn). (various references)

Chinese		表面硬化 (Caseharden, Casehardened, Casehardening). (various references)

Czech		cementovaný. (various references)

Danish		indsætningsstål (carbonised steel, carbonized steel, case-hardened steel, cemented steel). (various references)

Dutch		gehard staal (carbonised steel, carbonized steel, case-hardened steel, cemented steel), gehard gecementeerd staal (carbonised steel, carbonized steel, case-hardened steel, cemented steel). (various references)

French		acier cémenté (carbonised steel, carbonized steel, case-hardened steel). (various references)

German		abgebrüht (hard boiled). (various references)

Greek		χάλυβας εξ αναγωγής (carbonised steel, carbonized steel, case-hardened steel, cemented steel), επιφανειακά σκληρυμένος χάλυβας (carbonised steel, carbonized steel, case-hardened steel, cemented steel). (various references)

Hungarian		acélozott (steely). (various references)

Italian		acciaio cementato (carbonised steel, carbonized steel, case-hardened steel, cemented steel). (various references)

Pig Latin		ase-hardenedcay

Portuguese		cimentado (plugged), calejado (calloused, experienced driver, salted), insensibilizado, endurecido (hard-faced, unredeemed). (various references)

Russian		нечувствительный (impassible, impassive, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, non-sensitive), закаленный (chill, hard-tempered, salted, seasoned, weather beaten). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prekaljen (experienced, tested). (various references)

Spanish		cementado. (various references)

Swedish		ythärdat. (various references)

Turkish		yüzeyden sertleştirilmiş (casehardened). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-d-e-e-e-h-n-r-s"
	-2 letters: adherences, reascended.
	-3 letters: adherence, adherends, deadeners, decahedra, decreased, descender, headraces, scarehead, serenaded.
	-4 letters: adherend, ascended, ascender, careened, cesarean, charades, cheddars, credenda, creeshed, deadener, deceased, decerned, decrease, drenched, drenches, earaches, encashed, enchased, enchaser, endeared, haeredes, handcars, hardcase, hardened, headrace, reascend, redheads, screeded, screened, searched, secerned, serenade.
	-5 letters: achenes, adhered, adheres, anarchs, aneared, arcaded, arcades, canards.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-d-e-e-e-h-n-r-s"
	+3 letters: clearheadedness.
	+5 letters: clearheadednesses.
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