Meaning of hardened in English
Classifying Adjective
hardenedDefinitions
1. used of personsExamples
- « emotionally hardened »
- « faced a case-hardened judge »
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- 2. made tough by habitual exposure
Examples
- « hardened fishermen »
- « a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured- Robert Lynd »
- « our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men- V.S.Pritchett »
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- 3. converted to solid form (as concrete)
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Qualitative Adjective
hardenedDefinitions
1. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatmentExamples
- « a sword of tempered steel »
- « tempered glass »
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Famous quotes
- « Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself. » Elias Hicks