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refractory

English

  1. 🔊 temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to a process or stimulus
    “the refractory period of a muscle fiber”
  2. 🔊 not responding to treatment
    “a stubborn infection”
  3. 🔊 stubbornly resistant to authority or control
    “a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness”
  4. 🔊 lining consisting of material with a high melting point

Spanish

  1. 🔊 refractario refractory

Similar words

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