Safe and Tough

Safe

Safe adjective - Not exposed to the threat of loss or injury.

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

Nearby Words: safety, safekeeping, safely

Tough adjective - Not easily chewed.

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

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

old	old safe	old tough
public	public safe	public tough
many	many safe	many tough
real	real safe	real tough
Other adjectives: big, new, final, extra, random.

It makes it very tough to make them safe - there is work for the Belgian and French bomb disposal squads for many years yet...

Source: Durable Deathtrap
Since Flamer template weapons automatically ignored all cover saves as well, this means that the only thing safe from the Incinerator was extremely tough armor.

Source: Kill It with Fire
If you keep that jar till the end of the fourth chapter, it can be used to almost completely bypass an incredibly tough gauntlet right before that chapter's safe room.

Source: Video Game / Left 4 Dead 2

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