enured

enured
adjective
made tough by habitual exposure
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hardened fishermen

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"a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd

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"our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett

Syn: ↑inured, ↑hardened
Similar to: ↑tough, ↑toughened

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