adjective
used of persons
Synonyms
case-hardened
hard-boiled
Examples
- emotionally hardened
- faced a case-hardened judge
adjective
made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
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Examples
- a sword of tempered steel
- tempered glass
adjective
protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
Examples
- hardened missile silos
adjective
made tough by habitual exposure
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Examples
- hardened fishermen
- a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd
- our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett
adjective
converted to solid form (as concrete)
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verb
become hard or harder
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Examples
- The wax hardened
verb
make hard or harder
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Examples
- The cold hardened the butter
verb
harden by reheating and cooling in oil
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Examples
- temper steel
verb
make fit
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Examples
- This trip will season even the hardiest traveller
verb
cause to accept or become hardened to
Synonyms
Examples
- habituate
- He was inured to the cold