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111steel — O.E. style, from West Germanic adjective *stakhlijan made of steel (Cf. O.S. stehli, O.N., M.L.G. stal, Dan. staal, Swed. stôl, M.Du. stael, Du. staal, O.H.G. stahal, Ger. Stahl), related to *stakhla standing fast, from PIE …
112steel — [[t]sti͟ːl[/t]] ♦♦♦ steels, steeling, steeled 1) N MASS: oft N n Steel is a very strong metal which is made mainly from iron. Steel is used for making many things, for example bridges, buildings, vehicles, and cutlery. → See also stainless steel …
113casehardened — a., p. 1. Hardened (on the outside), steeled, converted into steel (on the surface), indurated. 2. Conscience seared, obdurate, reprobate, dead to duty, lost to shame, brazen, brazen faced …
114hardened — v. a. 1. Indurated, made hard. 2. Confirmed, inured, accustomed, habituated, seasoned, trained. 3. Deadened, seared, steeled, unfeeling, benumbed, callous, insensible. 4. Depraved, reprobate, obdurate, impenitent, lost, abandoned, incorrigible,… …
115steel — 1 /sti:l/ noun 1 (U) strong metal that can be shaped easily, consisting of iron and carbon: A bridge made of steel | stainless steel: stainless steel cutlery 2 (U) the industry that makes steel: Sheffield is a major steel town. 3 nerves of steel… …
116armed — adj equipped, accoutered, outfitted, girded, arrayed, furnished; readied, primed, prepared; fortified, armed to the teeth, strengthened, braced, steeled, reinforced, buttressed …
117die-hard — n 1.Inf. bitter ender, intransigent, irreconcilable, resister; extremist, fanatic, zealot; reactionary, ultraconservative, radical. adj 2. intransigent, irreconcilable, uncompromising, adamant, steeled; resisting, unyielding, inflexible, rigid,… …
118hardened — adj 1. hard, steely, casehardened, tempered, annealed, indurated, dried, fossilized, ossified, crystallized, insoluble, Pathol. sclerosed; set, fixed, firm, concrete; compressed, condensed. 2. steeled, tough, seared, hard boiled, seasoned; inured …
119pachydermatous — adj 1. elephantine, hippopotam ic, rhinocerotic. 2. thickskinned, callous, tough, obdurate, hardened, hard, hard boiled, steeled; inured, case hardened, insensitive, insensate, numb, unfeeling, insentient, insensible …
120passionless — adj 1. cold, unemotional, frigid, frozen, icy, cold hearted; emotionless, emotionally dead or numb, unresponsive, unaffectionate, unloving, immovable, untouchable; undesirous, desireless, inappe tent, unenthusiastic, uneager, bored, uninterested; …
