hardened

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H0058400 (här′dn)v. hard·ened, hard·en·ing, hard·ens v.tr.1. To make hard or harder: harden steel.2. To enable to withstand physical or mental hardship: was hardened by years of working as a farmer.3. To make unfeeling, unsympathetic, or callous: The betrayal hardened his heart against intimacy.4. To make fixed, settled, or less subject to change: "The incident only hardened existing attitudes while vanquishing any hope of collaboration" (Philip Dray).5. To make less vulnerable to attack by surrounding with earth or concrete: harden missile silos.v.intr.1. To become hard or harder.2. To become fixed, settled, or less subject to change: "Her early skepticism has hardened into cynicism" (Kelly Braffet).3. To become inured.4. To take on a disapproving or severe appearance: His face hardened with suspicion.5. To rise and become stable. Used of prices.Synonyms: harden, acclimate, acclimatize, season, toughen
These verbs mean to make resistant to hardship, especially through continued exposure: was hardened to frontier life; is acclimated to the tropical heat; was acclimatized by long hours to overwork; became seasoned to life in prison; has become toughened by adversity.

hardened

(ˈhɑːdənd) adj1. rigidly set, as in a mode of behaviour2. toughened, as by custom; seasoned3. (Military) (of a nuclear missile site) constructed to withstand a nuclear attack

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Adj.	1.	hardened - used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"case-hardened, hard-boiledhard - dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";
	2.	hardened - made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"tempered, toughened, treated
	3.	hardened - protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos"soft - not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "soft targets"
	4.	hardened - 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.Pritchettenured, inuredtoughened, tough - physically toughened; "the tough bottoms of his feet"
	5.	hardened - converted to solid form (as concrete)sethard - resisting weight or pressure

hardened

adjective1. habitual, set, fixed, chronic, shameless, inveterate, incorrigible, reprobate, irredeemable, badass (slang, chiefly U.S.) hardened criminals
habitual rare, occasional, irregular, infrequent, unaccustomed2. seasoned, experienced, accustomed, toughened, inured, habituated hardened politicians
seasoned green, naive

hardened

adjectiveCompletely lacking in compassion:callous, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, compassionless, hard, hard-boiled, hardhearted, heartless, obdurate, stonyhearted, unfeeling.

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