Old and Tough

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Old adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.

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Tough and old are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tough" instead an adjective "Old".

Nearby Words: oldie, olden, oldish

Tough adjective - Not easily chewed.

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Old and tough are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Old" instead an adjective "Tough".

Nearby Words: toughness, toughen, toughening, tougher, toughed

She is tough enough to still live at her homestead until she's 100 years old.

Source: Cool Old Lady
Some particularly tough octopus-like monsters prove vulnerable to good old-fashioned incineration.

Source: Kill It with Fire
In King of Thorn, some particularly tough octopus-like monsters prove vulnerable to good old-fashioned incineration.

Source: Weak to Fire

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