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hardened in WordNet English dictionary
adjective- used of persons; emotionally hardened
"faced a case-hardened judge"
case-hardened hardened hard-boiled
- 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
- made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
"a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
tempered treated hardened toughened
- protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
"hardened missile silos"
hardened
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
hardened set
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