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hardened

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hardened in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. used of persons; emotionally hardened
    "faced a case-hardened judge"
    case-hardened  hardened  hard-boiled 
  2. 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
    enured  inured  hardened 
  3. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
    "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
    tempered  treated  hardened  toughened 
  4. protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
    "hardened missile silos"
    hardened 
  5. converted to solid form (as concrete)
    hardened  set 
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