made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | produced without vibration of the vocal cords |
protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) | resisting weight or pressure |
made tough by habitual exposure | dispassionate |
converted to solid form (as concrete) | (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum |
used of persons; emotionally hardened | (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source |
| not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure |
| being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content |
| unfortunate or hard to bear |
| given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors |
| dried out |
| very strong or vigorous |
| characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort |