hardened

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hardened Definition

• (a) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
• (s) used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"
• (s) made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett
• (s) converted to solid form (as concrete)

hardened Synonyms

• case-hardened
• enured
• hard-boiled
• hardened
• inured
• set
• tempered
• toughened
• treated