hardened

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adjective

1. used of persons;
emotionally hardened (Freq. 1)
- faced a case-hardened judge
• Syn:
case-hardened, hard-boiled
• Similar to:
hard
2. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
- a sword of tempered steel
- tempered glass
• Syn:
tempered, treated, toughened
• Ant:
untempered (for: tempered)
• Similar to:
curable, sunbaked
3. protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
- hardened missile silos
• Ant:
soft
4. 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
• Syn:
enured, inured
• Similar to:
tough, toughened
5. converted to solid form (as concrete)
• Syn:
set
• Similar to:
hard