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31harden — I. v. a. 1. Indurate, make hard, make callous. 2. Habituate, inure, season, accustom, form, train, discipline. 3. Strengthen, fortify, steel, nerve, brace. 4. Sear, make callous, render insensible or unimpressible, make unfeeling. 5. Make… …
32drug — n 1. medicine, medication, medicament, remedy, physic, curé; curé all, panacea, wonder drug. 2. narcotic, Inf. opiate, depressant, sedative, tranquilizer, soporific, hypnotic; barbiturate, Sl. barbs. Inf. down or downer, quaalude, Sl. lude, Sl.… …
33hocus — v 1. trick, practice trickery or deception upon, deceive, hoodwink, jockey; dupe, gull, take in, cozen, befool, Archaic. chouse; humbug, Inf. flimflam, Inf. practice upon; cheat, bilk, swindle, defraud, palm off, job, victimize, diddle; hoax,… …
34anesthetize — an•es•the•tize [[t]əˈnɛs θɪˌtaɪz[/t]] v. t. tized, tiz•ing med to render insensible, as by an anesthetic • Etymology: 1840–50 an•es the•ti•za′tion, n …
35steel — [[t]stil[/t]] n. 1) mel any of various forms of refined iron containing less carbon than pig iron and more than wrought iron and possessing varying qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength 2) a thing or things made of this metal 3) clo a… …
36case-harden — /keɪs ˈhadn/ (say kays hahdn) verb (t) 1. Metallurgy to make hard the outside surface of alloys having an iron base, leaving the interior tough and ductile by carburising, cyanide hardening, or nitriding and suitable heat treatment. 2. to harden… …
37steel — /stil / (say steel) noun 1. iron in a modified form, artificially produced, containing a certain amount of carbon (more than in wrought iron and less than in cast iron) and other constituents, such as chromium, molybdenum, etc., and possessing a… …
38desensitize — [v] dull anesthetize, benumb, deaden, make inactive, make less sensitive, numb, render insensible; concepts 130,240 …
39caseharden — /kays hahr dn/, v.t. 1. Metall. to make the outside surface of (an alloy having an iron base) hard by carburizing and heat treatment, leaving the interior tough and ductile. 2. to harden in spirit so as to render insensible or insensitive to… …
40cau´ter|i|za´tion — cau|ter|ize «K tuh ryz», transitive verb, ized, iz|ing. 1. to burn with a hot iron or a caustic substance. Doctors sometimes cauterize wounds to prevent bleeding or infection. SYNONYM(S): sear. 2. Figurative. to render insensible; deaden the… …
