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adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]Something that is rock-like is very strong or firm, and is unlikely to change. ...his rock-like integrity. Examples of 'rock-like' in a sentencerock-like A rock-like display at both ends.These new measures don't make him rock-like and brave but weak, flappy and overreactive.He was also a formidable athlete, but above all a rock-like 'under-stander' in balances.Even more uncomfortable was the rock-like structure on which other subjects were required to sit.But his rock-like defence of the right to bear arms was worthy of an award.You can cheat by storing last season's conkers for a year, giving them plenty of time to become rock-like.Hard corals, formed from tiny animals, produce the rock-like skeleton that gives the oceans their reefs.If you've got that rock-like base at the back, it sets up forwards like me to go out and play. |