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HARDENED
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
Verb
hardened
simple past tense and past participle of harden
Adjective
hardened (comparative more hardened, superlative most hardened)
Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience; callous.
firmly established or unlikely to change; inveterate
Anagrams
• 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.
HARDEN
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
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