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hardened
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Adjective
  • converted to solid form (as concrete)
  • 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
  • protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
    • hardened missile silos
  • made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
    • a sword of tempered steel
    • tempered glass
  • used of persons; emotionally hardened
    • faced a case-hardened judge
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