Hardened
Hardened adjective - Able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposure.
Usage example: hardened from years of deprivation and grief, the man regarded the house fire as just another misfortune in a life filled with them
Strong and hardened are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Strong" instead an adjective "Hardened".
Both words in one sentence
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Bald of Awesome Batman Gambit: In "A Boy Named Sue," the reason the father named him that is because he knew he wouldn't always be there for his son, so he named him Sue so he would grow up hardened and strong from being bullied and picked on.
Source: Creator / Shel Silverstein -
The remake, therefore, goes into great detail to explain that the doors are just magically hardened to be as strong as adamant and mythril, but are actually made of ordinary cheap metals.
Source: Kleptomaniac Hero - He is a foil to Tavi in that he is Book Dumb, extremely strong with furycrafting and a hardened veteran of the legions, where Tavi none of the above, at least at first.
Source: The Lancer / Literature
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