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English Dictionary: hardened	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for hardened
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hardened adj used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case- hardened judge" Synonym(s): case-hardened, hardened, hard- boiled made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass" Synonym(s): tempered, treated, hardened, toughened Antonym(s): unhardened, untempered protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos" Antonym(s): soft 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 Synonym(s): enured, inured, hardened converted to solid form (as concrete) Synonym(s): hardened, set
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hardened \Hard"ened\, a. 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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Harden \Hard"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hardened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hardening}.] [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. [bd]Harden not your heart.[b8] --Ps. xcv. 8. I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10.