hardened, set
(adjective) converted to solid form (as concrete)
hardened, case-hardened, hard-boiled
(adjective) used of persons; emotionally hardened; “faced a case-hardened judge”
hardened
(adjective) protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); “hardened missile silos”
tempered, treated, hardened, toughened
(adjective) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; “a sword of tempered steel”; “tempered glass”
enured, inured, hardened
(adjective) 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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hardened
simple past tense and past participle of harden
hardened (comparative more hardened, superlative most hardened)
Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience; callous.
firmly established or unlikely to change; inveterate
• adherend, deharden
Source: Wiktionary
Hard"ened, a.
Definition: Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
Syn.
– Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling; unsusceptible; insensible. See Obdurate.
Hard"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened; p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening.] Etym: [OE. hardnen, hardenen.]
1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable. "Harden not your heart." Ps. xcv. 8. I would harden myself in sorrow. Job vi. 10.
Hard"en, v. i.
1. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying. The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A. Lincoln] has hardened into tradition. The Century.
2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense. They, hardened more by what might most reclaim. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 April 2025
(noun) cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers; “they used bales of newspaper every day”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
