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Adjective: hardened haa(r)d(u)nd- Used of persons; emotionally hardened
"faced a case-hardened judge"
- case-hardened, hard-boiled - Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
- tempered, treated, toughened - Protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
"hardened missile silos" - Made tough by habitual exposure
"hardened fishermen"
- enured, inured - Converted to solid form (as concrete)
- set
Verb: harden haa(r)d(u)n- Become hard or harder
"The wax hardened"
- indurate - Make hard or harder
"The cold hardened the butter"
- indurate - Harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- temper - Make fit
- season - Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
- inure, indurate, enure
See also: curable, hard, hardening, sunbaked, tough, toughened Type of: accustom, change, habituate, modify, toughen Antonym: soft, soften Encyclopedia: Harden, New South Wales Harden, Australia Harden Harden, West Yorkshire Harden, West Midlands Harden, Walsall |