Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Experienced in combat, and therefore more effective at fighting; -- used mostly of infantry troops.
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Examples
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And retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal's success teaching a leadership seminar at Yale should encourage other battle-hardened officers to consider doing their next tour in the classroom.
How to Get More Ivy Leaguers Into ROTC Cheryl Miller 2011
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The other big release this week is "Inglourious Basterds," Quentin Tarantino's World War II fantasy war adventure following a group of battle-hardened Jewish soldiers taking on the Nazis in ruthless fashion.
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Now he was trying to better understand him as the battle-hardened combat leader that he had become, he said.
Lt. Gen. John Kelly, who lost son to war, says U.S. largely unaware of sacrifice 2011
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Such a visceral reaction, coming from battle-hardened critics, was unusual, to say the least.
Plot-Driven Epistemological Dilemmas Sam Sacks 2012
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Now he was trying to better understand him as the battle-hardened combat leader that he had become, he said.
Lt. Gen. John Kelly, who lost son to war, says U.S. largely unaware of sacrifice 2011
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Libya's battle-hardened militias have been hunting Seif al-Islam, 39 years old, since he disappeared in late August after the capital, Tripoli, fell under rebel control.
Gadhafi's Son Is Captured in Libya Margaret Coker 2011
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The battle-hardened Afghan veterans of the KGB and army special forces had studied and practiced similar actions many times.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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While I dithered and waited to see what would happen, my neighbors were already rampaging through the supermarket, stripping it like battle-hardened commandos—which, in a sense, they were.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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The battle-hardened Afghan veterans of the KGB and army special forces had studied and practiced similar actions many times.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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This was a game played by boys training to be soldiers and sailors for the benefit of battle-hardened soldiers and sailors dreaming of being boys once again.
The Army-Navy Game Nobody Missed Randy Roberts 2011
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