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Hardened

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Definitions for Hardened

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

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