Easy and Hardened

Easy

Easy adjective - Involving minimal difficulty or effort.

Hardened and easy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hardened" instead an adjective "Easy".

Nearby Words: ease, easily, easiness

Hardened

Hardened adjective - Able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposure.

Easy and hardened are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Easy" instead an adjective "Hardened".

Nearby Words: hardening, hardener

Both words in one sentence

  • A pickpocket assails Stede, who looks like an easy mark, unaware that the mark is an associate of Edward Kenway, a hardened privateer-turned-pirate.
  • They hardened their ICBM silos in the late 1970s and early 1980s; before then, they achieved this by deploying missiles in Cuba in 1962, within easy reach of the continental US, which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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